Zeya Peng

Software Engineer
Meta

Zeya is a Software Engineer on React team at Meta, where she works on React Native's adoption in Meta's VR products including Horizon Worlds and Instagram VR. Alongside this, she led the rewrite of React Native's native animated system in C++, unifying four platform-specific implementations into a single cross-platform engine now shipped on Meta apps.

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2026
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One Engine to Animate Them All: Rewriting React Native's Animated in C++

How we replaced React Native's four separate native animation implementations with a single cross-platform engine in C++, then used that foundation to fix a class of bugs that had frustrated developers for a long time.

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Zeya Peng

Software Engineer
Meta

Zeya is a Software Engineer on React team at Meta, where she works on React Native's adoption in Meta's VR products including Horizon Worlds and Instagram VR. Alongside this, she led the rewrite of React Native's native animated system in C++, unifying four platform-specific implementations into a single cross-platform engine now shipped on Meta apps.

CHAIN REACT
talk
2026
Talk recording coming soon
Watch
talk

One Engine to Animate Them All: Rewriting React Native's Animated in C++

How we replaced React Native's four separate native animation implementations with a single cross-platform engine in C++, then used that foundation to fix a class of bugs that had frustrated developers for a long time.

Talk Details