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A framework for building native Windows apps with React.

76 mentions on Hacker News by 64 people: 9 stories, 67 comments · first 2016-04-13 · latest 2026-03-25

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  1. https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/discussion... https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/pull/15371 https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Amicrosoft%2Freact-native-... It looks like they were originally on Chakra (the…
    comment by contextfree · 2026-03-25 · in No, Windows Start does not use React
  2. …and iOS that uses native UI. Microsoft even have a package for doing a "React Native" for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows It's weird that we don't have a unified "React Native Desktop" that would build upon the…
    comment by theknarf · 2026-02-03 · in The Codex App
  3. …(which is currently WinUI2/UWP on Windows, supposed to be moving to WinUI3/WinAppSDK in the future) https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/projects/3...
    comment by contextfree · 2022-02-18 · in React Native for Windows is helping Settings improve more quickly
  4. …written in React. As is Teams. As is Visual Studio Code. Specifically, React Native for Windows. https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows For things like background services, they still use C/C++.
    comment by fleddr · 2021-08-17 · in Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
  5. Doesn't make any sense, especially since they created https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows Can we stop using document formatting as applications? We're also not using Word with OLE/COM/ActiveX objects to do video conferencing.
    comment by jbverschoor · 2021-06-26 · in Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2
  6. …) I think for react native in windows apps more generally the github page is a good start https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
    comment by Barrin92 · 2021-03-07 · in Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps
  7. …a recent link from another HN comment discussion: http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react-native and https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/blob/maste... Turns out left-pad.js is on line 8571 of that 14+k line yarn.lock file. How…
    comment by bigiain · 2020-05-17 · in It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
  8. it's in there, somewhere.. https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/blob/maste...
    comment by captivechains · 2020-05-13 · in React Native for Windows and Mac
  9. It is not. Here's the GitHub for the Windows implementation: https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows And here's the fork of React Native for the Mac one (it doesn't seem to be as polished as the Windows one yet):…
    comment by mynameisvlad · 2020-05-12 · in React Native for Windows and Mac
  10. They seem to be putting a lot of effort on React Native for Windows and Mac ( https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows ). If you don't want to go full Electron, I think React Native ticks a lot of boxes (cross-plat, accessible for…
    comment by gigel82 · 2020-03-16 · in WinUI, The modern native UI platform of Windows
  11. …React Native. But it appears that there are React Native rendering targets for Windows and Linux ( https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows and https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop ). I'd probably start by looking…
    comment by andymatuschak · 2020-03-16 · in DefaultApp
  12. Yes, at least officially for Windows. The official fork: https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows
    comment by scarlac · 2020-03-16 · in DefaultApp
  13. …https://mybuild.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/77008 React Native for Windows reimplementation https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows React Native @ Microsoft, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUMWFExtDSg And even if one…
    comment by pjmlp · 2019-10-18 · in Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia
  14. …Regarding show, don't tell. The 21st century React Native for Windows is written on top of COM/C++, https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUMWFExtDSg We are having a Delphi conference in upcoming…
    comment by pjmlp · 2019-10-18 · in Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]
  15. Microsoft maintains it's own fork of react-native that allows this. https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows There's more experimental forks for macos and qt.
    comment by s_y_n_t_a_x · 2019-07-15 · in Building a hackable editor in the browser
  16. …hub.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d... React Native for Windows rewrite on top of WinUI https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows Announcement done during last month's BUILD. UWP is live and well as Win32's successor.
    comment by pjmlp · 2019-05-31 · in Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform app dream is dead and buried
  17. …React Native for Windows is being ported from C# into WinUI/C++. https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows Plus these guys should spend more time at BUILD and MSDN. All major Windows 10 APIs are UWP only, even if th
    comment by pjmlp · 2019-05-30 · in Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform app dream is dead and buried
  18. …same style of API and workflow, but different widgets and no cross-platform compatibility. Source: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows/blob/maste...
    comment by iso-8859-1 · 2019-05-06 · in Microsoft Launches React Native for Windows
  19. …doesn't support a native feature that you need, you should be able to build it yourself. Source: https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/blob/maste...
    comment by iso-8859-1 · 2019-05-06 · in Microsoft Launches React Native for Windows
  20. …Windows is out already, and it works fine. They're just announcing the kickoff of a C++ rewrite. https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows/blob/maste... > In this sub-folder, we are working on a vnext rewrite of React Native for…
    comment by dfabulich · 2019-05-06 · in Microsoft Launches React Native for Windows
  21. …) targets mobile and desktop platforms using the OS's native UI. Windows support is implemented via https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows and targets W10, Xbox, and Windows Mixed Reality. MacOS support is experimental, but…
    comment by s_y_n_t_a_x · 2019-04-25 · in Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)
  22. …Windows and MacOS using their native controls. Microsoft maintains the Windows ReactNative fork ( https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows ) and they wrap React, ReactNative, and the desktop forks in their ReactXP project. I don't…
    comment by s_y_n_t_a_x · 2019-04-25 · in Flutter desktop shells
  23. Have you seen React Native Windows ( https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows ) and react-native-macos ( https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos )? I haven't used either, but they both look very popular, 5k-10k stars on Github.
    comment by joshuagross · 2019-03-02 · in React Native Open Source Update
  24. …desktop already exists, so yes, I guess it makes sense https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
    comment by mtmail · 2018-11-26 · in Ask HN: Do Windows and OS X each have their own React like rendering engines?
  25. …Native for Web[1] and React Native Windows[2]. [1] https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
    comment by watoc · 2018-09-20 · in ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps
  26. …https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/07/30/annou... 2) react-native-windows is thriving: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows 3) WinObjC is looking formidable: https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC I think the…
    comment by LinguaBrowse · 2018-08-09 · in Microsoft are quietly merging Office code into their react-native-macos repo
  27. …can also investigate if you can use F# (equivalent somewhat to ocaml), to develop Windows Apps with https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows Same for Nim https://github.com/andreaferretti/react.nim (there is probably a way to…
    comment by maga_2020 · 2018-06-28 · in State of Multicore OCaml [pdf]
  28. Including a link to https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
    comment by ofrzeta · 2018-06-13 · in Office 365, Skype, MS Teams, and VS Code Are All Being Rewritten in React Native
  29. …of cross-platform (using web technologies) dev stack. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
    comment by prplhaz4 · 2018-05-07 · in .NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications
  30. https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos
    comment by scottmf · 2018-05-02 · in Proton Native – React Native for the desktop
  31. People are trying https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop But without top-level standardisation effort it will not work.
    comment by Chyzwar · 2018-04-26 · in So, if not Electron apps, then what?
  32. Mobile has react-native. What about desktop? I see this: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows for Windows. I wonder if something like that could be done for Qt?
    comment by my_ghola · 2018-02-22 · in Electron 2.0.0 beta
  33. I see a few attempts - https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows and http://reactdesktop.js.org/ The Windows one is from Microsoft, but is single platform. Nothing officially supported by react devs as far as I can tell.
    comment by piracykills · 2018-02-22 · in Electron 2.0.0 beta
  34. …at least until OCR is 100% accurate. Anyway, here's the list (I tested all the URLs): Windows: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows macOS: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos Linux (Qt):…
    comment by mwcampbell · 2018-02-18 · in React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook
  35. Not just mobile apps: Windows: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows Macos: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos Linux (Qt): https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop AR: https://github.com/HippoAR/react-native-ark…
    comment by mlsarecmg · 2018-01-21 · in Guide to JavaScript Frameworks
  36. …pop up for the wildest platforms each day, as well as official renderers made by big vendors ( https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows ), the idea of a web-bound Angular-like framework seems odd in 2018. I wouldn't expect Vue to…
    comment by mlsarecmg · 2018-01-14 · in 2017 JavaScript Rising Stars
  37. …itself is betting on React for cross platform and native apps as well as extension eco systems: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric
    comment by mlsarecmg · 2017-11-20 · in How Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Led to the Open Sourcing of React.js
  38. Notably, support for https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows , the React Native plugin for building UWP apps, is missing, which is a bit of a curious omission for a Microsoft product. Anyone here have experience working with…
    comment by fro0116 · 2017-11-15 · in App Center: Build, Test, Distribute and Monitor Apps in the Cloud
  39. > native UI driven by React + JS. https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows Watching how Microsoft manages this project may give an additional insight into how ideas you are suggesting would fare. (It doesn't seem to be a tire fire…
    comment by j_s · 2017-11-03 · in Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NET core and ASP.NET core
  40. …https://facebook.github.io/react-native/ 3d: https://github.com/Izzimach/react-three windows: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows macos: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos sketchapp: http://airbnb.io/react-sketchapp/…
    comment by mlsarecmg · 2017-10-01 · in WalmartLabs opensources its tool for bringing React Native to mobile apps
  41. Microsoft released a library for making native Windows apps with React Native: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
    comment by chrisco255 · 2017-08-20 · in Why I'm not a React Native developer
  42. …bindings available, but they're relatively experimental: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows https://github.com/jamrizzi/react-gtk (no code yet, just intent to develop)
    comment by jwarren · 2017-08-19 · in Why I'm not a React Native developer
  43. …be another option. I hear Android support has gotten better and you can supposedly also target UWP: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows I wrote this a while ago but it's still fairly relevant:…
    comment by jsingleton · 2017-08-14 · in Announcing .NET Core 2.0
  44. If Microsoft's lawyers were okay with React, then I'm pretty sure your startup is okay. https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
    comment by chrisco255 · 2017-07-16 · in Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license
  45. https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows what about this?
    comment by ajitid · 2017-07-13 · in Ask HN: Why does mobile appear to have a better dev UX compared to desktop UIs?
  46. …ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface) [2] https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos [3] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows [4] https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/react-native/blob/ubuntu/REA...
    comment by leipert · 2017-07-11 · in Ask HN: Why does mobile appear to have a better dev UX compared to desktop UIs?
  47. Microsoft has put out an implementation for Windows, too: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
    comment by giaour · 2017-05-03 · in Ask HN: Do you think Electron is good for building Desktop Apps?
  48. Microsoft certainly does. https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows https://microsoft.github.io/code-push/ https://mspoweruser.com/skype-is-testing-a-new-android-app-w...
    comment by spicyj · 2017-04-24 · in A response to “An experienced JavaScript dev’s account of learning React”
  49. …- OS X: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos - Windows: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
    comment by namuol · 2017-04-12 · in Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
  50. …dependency. Totally doable since Microsoft is supporting it on the Univ. Windows Platform ( https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows ) but macOS? Someone's working on it but it's of course not apple (…
    comment by automathematics · 2017-04-11 · in Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)