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Clean Architecture React Native AI Template: 3 Layers: a glossy App Store icon on a blue, pink and orange gradient with bubbles
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Clean Architecture React Native AI Template: 3 Layers

A pragmatic clean architecture template for AI-built React Native apps: three layers, inward dependencies, repository contracts agents code against.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Convert a v0 React Component to SwiftUI: The Mapping: a vivid neon 3D App Store icon on an orange, pink and blue gradient
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Convert a v0 React Component to SwiftUI: The Mapping

Convert v0 React components to SwiftUI: the JSX-to-View mapping, Tailwind-to-modifier translation, what doesn't transfer, and the prompt that does it right.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Copy-Paste UI Components for Next.js: Own the Code: a glass photo icon surrounded by chat, music, heart, camera and shopping app icons on a pastel gradient
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Copy-Paste UI Components for Next.js: Own the Code

Why copy-paste components won Next.js UI: the shadcn model, owned code agents can edit, when packages still win, and the same philosophy for app screens.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Cursor MCP for React Components: Context on Tap: a glass iPhone UI wireframe icon on a holographic purple gradient
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Cursor MCP for React Components: Context on Tap

Wire MCP servers into Cursor for component work: design-source and registry servers, the setup, when MCP beats pasting, and what it honestly changes.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Cursor: Migrate React to React Native Without the Jank: a vivid neon 3D App Store icon on an orange, pink and blue gradient
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Cursor: Migrate React to React Native Without the Jank

Migrate a React web app to React Native with Cursor: what transfers whole, the DOM-to-native dictionary, the extract-logic-first sequence, and per-screen prompts.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Cursor Rules for React Native: Your Taste, Enforced: a reflective 3D App Store icon on a blue and purple gradient
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Cursor Rules for React Native: Your Taste, Enforced

Write Cursor rules for React Native that work: the decisions worth encoding, scoped rule files, a concrete ruleset, and the drift that kills stale rules.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Expo Managed vs Bare for AI Apps: The Plugin Era Answer: the App Store logo as a glossy glass icon on a purple and blue gradient with floating bubbles
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Expo Managed vs Bare for AI Apps: The Plugin Era Answer

Managed vs bare Expo for AI-built apps: config plugins dissolved the old binary, prebuild is an artifact not source, and agents thrive where native dirs don't exist.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Export Figma to SwiftUI Without Bravo Studio: 3 Routes: a glass app tile showing the VP0 logo on a pink and blue gradient
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Export Figma to SwiftUI Without Bravo Studio: 3 Routes

Get from Figma to SwiftUI without Bravo: the agent route that won, Dev Mode values as the spec, why plugin exporters disappoint, and when to skip Figma entirely.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Export Framer to iOS App Native: The Three Real Routes: a reflective 3D App Store icon on a blue and purple gradient
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Export Framer to iOS App Native: The Three Real Routes

Framer has no native export, and that's fine: the wrapper trap, the agent rebuild that works, and why keeping Framer for the website is usually the answer.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Export a Lovable Web App to React Native: You Have Code: a phone toggle icon surrounded by location, calendar, settings, wallet and chart app icons on a coral gradient
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Export a Lovable Web App to React Native: You Have Code

Lovable exports real React code, which changes everything: extract the logic core, migrate screens by dictionary, and keep the backend wiring that transfers whole.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Fatal Error: Array Bounds in AI Swift Code: 4 Families: a glass iPhone app-grid icon on a mint and teal gradient
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Fatal Error: Array Bounds in AI Swift Code: 4 Families

Fix the Index-out-of-range crashes AI writes in Swift: parallel-array assumptions, force-indexing, stale ForEach indices, and the brief that prevents all four.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Fix Replit Agent React Native Expo Crashes: Triage: the App Store logo on a glass tile over a blue gradient with bubbles
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Fix Replit Agent React Native Expo Crashes: Triage

Triage Replit Agent React Native Expo crashes by symptom: bundler failures, red-screen errors, native-module deaths, and how to stop the agent's fix loop.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Indie Vibe Makers: Expo vs Native Swift in 2026: the App Store logo as a glossy glass icon on a purple and blue gradient with floating bubbles
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Indie Vibe Makers: Expo vs Native Swift in 2026

The solo-builder decision between Expo and native Swift: where each wins now that agents write both, and the four questions that actually decide it.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Letting AI Do the Entire Firebase Integration: Almost: a glossy App Store icon on a blue, pink and orange gradient with bubbles
Workflows 5 min read

Letting AI Do the Entire Firebase Integration: Almost

What AI agents do well in a Firebase integration and the three human gates: security rules, data modeling for queries, and the read-cost surfaces agents ignore.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Open-Source App Screens vs SaaS Generators: Go Free: a phone toggle icon surrounded by location, calendar, settings, wallet and chart app icons on a coral gradient
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Open-Source App Screens vs SaaS Generators: Go Free

How open-source and free app screens replace metered SaaS UI generators: the ownership stack, license basics, what generators still do better, and the math.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Replit Agent Expo App on a Physical iPhone: 3 Paths: a glossy App Store icon on a blue, pink and orange gradient with bubbles
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Replit Agent Expo App on a Physical iPhone: 3 Paths

How to run a Replit Agent Expo app on a real iPhone: Expo Go with a tunnel, EAS development builds, TestFlight, and where the free Apple ID stops.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Sell AI-Generated iOS App Templates on Flippa: Guide: the App Store logo as a frosted glass icon on a pink and blue gradient with bubbles
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Sell AI-Generated iOS App Templates on Flippa: Guide

What actually sells when you list an AI-generated iOS app on Flippa: verifiable revenue, clean licenses, honest AI disclosure, and the app transfer mechanics.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
VS Code Folder Structure for AI App Building That Holds: a vivid neon 3D App Store icon on an orange, pink and blue gradient
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VS Code Folder Structure for AI App Building That Holds

The folder structure that keeps AI app building coherent: feature folders, small files, a conventions doc agents read, and why structure beats context size.

Lawrence Arya · June 5, 2026
Best App UI Templates Marketplace: An Honest Map: a glossy App Store icon on a blue, pink and orange gradient with bubbles
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Best App UI Templates Marketplace: An Honest Map

The honest map of app UI template marketplaces: free AI-readable design libraries, web component registries, and paid Figma kits, each with its real job.

Lawrence Arya · June 4, 2026
Bolt.new Free Rate Limits: The Legit Way to More: a glass iPhone app-grid icon on a mint and teal gradient
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Bolt.new Free Rate Limits: The Legit Way to More

Do not bypass Bolt.new's free rate limits, it breaks the terms and risks a ban. Here is what the token limit really is and the legit ways to get more headroom.

Lawrence Arya · June 4, 2026
Bolt.new Pricing 2026 Explained: Plans and Tokens: the App Store logo as a glossy glass icon on a purple and blue gradient with floating bubbles
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Bolt.new Pricing 2026 Explained: Plans and Tokens

Bolt.new pricing 2026 explained: the free tier, Pro, Teams, and Enterprise, plus how token billing works and why edits cost more as your project grows.

Lawrence Arya · June 4, 2026
Can CatDoes Manage User Authentication Security?: a vivid neon 3D App Store icon on an orange, pink and blue gradient
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Can CatDoes Manage User Authentication Security?

Yes, CatDoes auto-provisions Supabase and generates auth flows. But security is shared: here is what it handles and the access rules you must verify yourself.

Lawrence Arya · June 4, 2026
CatDoes Free vs Pro: Pricing and Limitations: a glass iPhone UI wireframe icon on a holographic purple gradient
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CatDoes Free vs Pro: Pricing and Limitations

CatDoes free lets you test one app; paid plans unlock shipping. The limitation that matters most is exec credits, not the price. Here is the full breakdown.

Lawrence Arya · June 4, 2026
Is CatDoes Native or a Mobile Wrapper PWA?: a glowing iPhone home-screen icon on a purple and blue gradient
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Is CatDoes Native or a Mobile Wrapper PWA?

CatDoes builds native apps with React Native and Expo, not a PWA or web wrapper. Here is what that means and why it matters for push, hardware, and store search.

Lawrence Arya · June 4, 2026