microsoft/react-native-windows
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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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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 -
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? -
…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? -
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? -
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” -
…- 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) -
…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) -
…[2] https://github.com/facebook/react-native [3] https://github.com/facebook/react-native [4] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows [5] https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos [6] https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web…
comment by migueloller · 2017-04-11 · in Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) -
…even some early work on Ubuntu support [3]. [1] https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows [3] https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/react-native/blob/ubuntu/REA...
comment by migueloller · 2017-04-11 · in Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) -
…[1]. I haven't tried it yet, but I think it should also be pretty easy to get running. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
comment by nathan_f77 · 2017-04-08 · in ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps -
https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows Works well enough that I was able to get up and running with a Windows Universal app on hololens.
comment by kaasi · 2017-03-27 · in Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16) -
…[2]: https://github.com/grassator/react-qml [3]: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos [4]: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows [5]: https://github.com/ramitos/react-tvml [6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNC0mRYGWgc…
comment by sscotth · 2017-03-19 · in JavaScript once had a JSX-like syntax called E4X -
There's https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos for OSX and, as mentioned, also Microsoft's https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows for Win10/UWP
comment by petrbela · 2017-02-27 · in Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain -
…even a WPF version of it[1]. React native for macOS[2] worked decently when I tried it, too. [1] https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows/tree/ma... [2] https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos
comment by rpeden · 2017-02-14 · in Happy 15th Birthday .NET -
…makes use of React Native for Windows that you can point me to would be super helpful as well. [1] https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows
comment by lewisl9029 · 2017-02-07 · in React Native at Instagram -
Also Microsoft is using Yoga (previously known as css-layout) in React Native for Windows: https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows
comment by ville · 2016-12-07 · in Yoga: A cross-platform layout engine -
React Native supports * iOS * Android * OS X https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos * Windows https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows * Ubuntu https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/08/05/introducing-... * the web…
comment by edtechdev · 2016-08-28 · in Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs? -
…of a hassle. Some basic notes related to this: 1. Windows tutorials lacking for your example apps: https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows/tree/ed... (I would do a pull request myself to fix it if I had time these days) 2.…
comment by divbit · 2016-08-17 · in We are Microsoft. We are here to learn. How can we help you build mobile apps? -
…it hasn't been mentioned, I'll remind everyone that they recently did the same with React Native https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows Cool stuff.
comment by FLGMwt · 2016-08-03 · in Microsoft forks Unreal Engine 4 and ports it to Universal Windows Platform -
Also available from Microsoft: https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows Seems to be only Windows 10 and xbox though.
comment by freestockoption · 2016-07-19 · in Ask HN: Why / Why Not Use Electron? -
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React Native Plugin for Universal Windows Platform (UWP)story by hitr · 2016-07-10 · 0 comments
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Fixed: https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native/issues/345
comment by jongalloway2 · 2016-04-14 · in React Native on the Universal Windows Platform -
https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native/blob/ReactWindo... Looks like it evaluates the JS and creates XAML elements programmatically using C#.
comment by Aleman360 · 2016-04-13 · in React Native on the Universal Windows Platform -
…Because I found this statement "Assuming you have Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise installed" at https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native/tree/ReactWindo...
comment by jgnmello · 2016-04-13 · in React Native on the Universal Windows Platform -
For those interested, the GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native
comment by RussianCow · 2016-04-13 · in React Native on the Universal Windows Platform -
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Source Code of React Native for Windowsstory by hswolff · 2016-04-13 · 0 comments