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Highlights, new products, and plans for the future og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What happened at AppJS 2026? Highlights, new products, and plans for the future **[Expo Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/expo-blog)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Recap of Expo's presence at App.js 2026 conference in Kraków. Key highlights include Expo SDK 56 with 40% faster Android cold start times and pre-compiled binaries, Expo Router v56 with native navigation primitives, Expo UI stable release with SwiftUI/Jetpack Compose support, TV app support, home screen widgets, and an official MCP server. The headline announcement is Expo Observe, a new open source production performance monitoring library now in public beta — free for up to 10,000 MAU for at least three months. Observe tracks launch time, bundle load time, time-to-render, and time-to-interactive per screen using Expo Router URLs, with device metadata and agent-queryable dashboards. The post also covers how Expo's JavaScript/TypeScript stack and documentation quality make it a natural fit for AI-assisted app generation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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