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A framework for building native applications using React

157 mentions on Hacker News by 129 people: 45 stories, 112 comments · first 2015-03-26 · latest 2025-09-24

Mentions per year 157 mentions · busiest year 2017 (42)
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  1. …[0]. Workarounds exist [1], but aren't great for text that spans multiple lines and styles. [0] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/13938 [1] https://github.com/bluesky-social/react-native-uitextview
    comment by mattvr · 2025-09-24 · in Just let me select text
  2. …off CocoaPods has barely moved past planning stage. Latest update from two weeks ago links to https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/52909 and says it’s very very experimental. Just great…
    comment by oefrha · 2025-09-01 · in CocoaPods trunk read-only plan
  3. …[2] https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/c964e143d97... [3] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/77b3a8bdd6164b... [4] https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/blob/07fef970a33ae120c8ff2a9e...
    comment by Calavar · 2024-09-07 · in What's new in C++26 (part 1)
  4. …auto-submit[bot], flutter-pub-roller-bot, dependabot[bot] React Native monthly pulse: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pulse/monthly "Excluding merges, 84 authors have pushed 437 commits to main and 575 commits to all branches" 1st…
    comment by pzo · 2024-08-12 · in Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter
  5. …some actual real life numbers you can use if you want to gauge the health of the two projects: 1. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pulse 2. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pulse Specifically Flutter’s 108 merged pull requests to…
    comment by mdhb · 2024-08-12 · in Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter
  6. …I actually was helping getting this added, but we never managed to get the layout issues fixed - https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/34834 The measure function you mention isn’t co-ordinated to the layout, so you could read it…
    comment by jacobp100 · 2023-07-26 · in Expo – Open-source platform for making universal apps for Android, iOS, and web
  7. …React Native, and it's still not clear if they ever fixed it or if it just got closed as stale: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/27989
    comment by dimmke · 2023-05-24 · in Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page
  8. …we are talking about the same thing :) programming is creative, and for me it is art, i love it. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues?q=is%3Aissue...
    comment by throwaway71271 · 2023-03-14 · in Am I still relevant as a programmer now that there's AI?
  9. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases React Native is still 0.x, since 2015!
    comment by lelandfe · 2022-10-19 · in Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments Platform
  10. …worth comparing GitHub activity for Flutter https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pulse/monthly and RN https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pulse/monthly I think Flutter is a much better long term bet despite the fact that it’s a much…
    comment by mhoad · 2022-06-23 · in React Native 0.69
  11. …can diff two tips like so: https://github.com/{org}/{repo}/compare/{commitish1}..{commi... Example: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/compare/0.65-stable...
    comment by noway421 · 2021-10-24 · in .NET Hot Reload Support via CLI
  12. …leveraging frameworks such as React & React Native" The top contributors are Facebook Engineers: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/graphs/contributors...
    comment by ec109685 · 2021-05-15 · in Transition to React Native
  13. …There's always been some activity around it on the issue tracker[0] but not many solutions. [0] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/25986 and related issues
    comment by phreack · 2021-03-24 · in Hermes, a JavaScript engine optimized for React Native
  14. …s://github.com/nodejs/node│JavaScript│73│0│3226│10│64.7│63│1517│2055│4.1│1049988│0.98421 react-native│https://github.com/facebook/react-native│JavaScript│71│0│2866│5│50.5│15│778│1694│3.1│223266│0.90739…
    comment by tmsh · 2020-12-12 · in Finding Critical Open Source Projects
  15. That is exactly what happened to my Facebook account, and it only got reinstated after this issue: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395 Though mine was probably locked solely because of the way I've metodically checked out…
    comment by dessant · 2020-11-21 · in FTC commissioner met with Apple regarding Facebook’s iOS 14 complaints
  16. Hector’s colleague here. This is exactly what happened. Please see Hector’s response: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395#issuec...
    comment by danabramov · 2020-11-15 · in “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
  17. Response by the Facebook developer: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395#issuec...
    comment by wil93 · 2020-11-15 · in “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
  18. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395 @facebook facebook locked and limited conversation to collaborators 3 minutes ago ruh roh..
    comment by Johnyma22 · 2020-11-15 · in “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
  19. The app was swapped during an internal review process at Facebook. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/f9c2157141b8...
    comment by dessant · 2020-11-15 · in “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
  20. …additional metadata fields like "Reviewed By:", "Differential Revision:", "fbshipit-source-id:": https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/864cdf338369... Commits in hramos/label-actions repo don't follow this pattern:…
    comment by antonf · 2020-11-15 · in “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
  21. They did take the code. Here is the proof: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/f9c2157141b8... (Posted in another thread on same discussion).
    comment by kumarm · 2020-11-15 · in “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
  22. …Short answer, it was copied from author then changed. Commit here: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/f9c2157141b8...
    comment by capableweb · 2020-11-15 · in “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
  23. He linked the commit where FB swapped it out: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/f9c2157141b8...
    comment by chrisan · 2020-11-15 · in “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
  24. I have opened an issue on the React Native repository, please share it and help me find a solution. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395 Hopefully they will be helpful, and I don't have to take legal action regarding the…
    comment by dessant · 2020-11-15 · in Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support”
  25. …[2] https://github.com/marketplace/actions/label-actions [3] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/f9c2157141b8...
    comment by dessant · 2020-11-15 · in Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support”
  26. e.g. see also https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/29236
    comment by spion · 2020-10-04 · in MobX 6
  27. …Even the React Native team apparently allowed the file to be treated as non-diffable for some time: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/11047 And note the large number of commits on all types of projects that essentially say…
    comment by btown · 2020-08-17 · in XCSSET Mac Malware infects Xcode projects, performs UXSS attack on browsers
  28. Take the most basic example: a Button. The RN's core Button it’s a Text composed with a Touchable ( https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/Librari... ). It behaves in the same way but there are subtle differences in text…
    comment by diegof79 · 2020-05-13 · in React Native for Windows and Mac
  29. …AsyncStorage, and more. This is a large scale effort from the dev team to decrease core size: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/23313
    comment by scarlac · 2020-05-13 · in React Native for Windows and Mac
  30. …does have more dependencies than vanilla react, on first glance the list doesn't seem too crazy https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/package...
    comment by peterhunt · 2020-05-12 · in React Native for Windows and Mac
  31. …https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-pr... [1] https://mobile.twitter.com/ [2] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/23313 edited: not sure how to make this list correctly formatted
    comment by oakesm9 · 2020-01-29 · in Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
  32. …as a fork of React Native. 0: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/blob/master/ios/sdk/base/Hi... 1: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/React/B... 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21877857
    comment by K0nserv · 2019-12-25 · in Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent
  33. …but that's just a guess [0]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/blob/master/ios/sdk/compone... [1]: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/13413 [2]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/tree/master/layout [3]:…
    comment by Jarred · 2019-12-25 · in Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent
  34. …to standalone React DevTools at startup and indeed flood your console with cryptic messages. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/10027 The issue has been locked and is still open.
    comment by LinguaBrowse · 2019-08-16 · in New React DevTools
  35. …natively on Macs. Some initial work was already done to make React Native compile for this target: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/25427
    comment by w-m · 2019-07-31 · in Electron 6.0
  36. …regarding gains in JS and WebAssembly interop performance; check it out if you haven't [2]. [1] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/13243 [2] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/calls-between-javascript-a...
    comment by supernintendo · 2018-10-09 · in Ask HN: How can we make React better?
  37. …Native for Android is incompatible with 3rd-party 64-bit libraries[1] affect the development? [1] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/2814
    comment by krn · 2018-08-17 · in Publishing an iOS App with ClojureScript and React Native
  38. …our stores/business logic from the desktop/ios clients so we can move faster. * On 64-bit support https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/2814 it ca be worked around without much consequence but is a consideration as ones…
    comment by mrkcsc · 2018-07-26 · in Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native
  39. There's a linked issue in React Native regarding 64-bit: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/2814 . In short, you can't use 64-bit dependencies.
    comment by saagarjha · 2018-07-26 · in Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native
  40. …was there was a bug in RN core. We submitted a PR which was finally accepted about 6 months later: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/16612#event-...
    comment by jwarren · 2018-07-04 · in React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity
  41. …a large enough dev team to maintain their own fork was still unable to make RN work for them. [1] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/12912
    comment by mythz · 2018-06-20 · in Announcing Flutter Release Preview 1
  42. …to get to a point where they are accepted, but saying PRs are never accepted isn't quite accurate: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%9...
    comment by HectorRamos · 2018-06-15 · in State of React Native 2018
  43. …See react-native-fetch-blob for an example, when I read a file. Current state: Example, issue: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/1424 (closed but not solved, quote: "We are trying to keep issues focused on bugs and this is…
    comment by ItsMe000001 · 2018-06-15 · in State of React Native 2018
  44. …of proper ES6 support on Android. The issues are closed on GitHub instead of being addressed. See https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/11232
    comment by warpech · 2018-06-14 · in State of React Native 2018
  45. …by bot). On the other hand, the commit history seems pretty active - and that's an understatement: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commits/master (same for Flow) I think the commit history says more than (auto-)closed issues. They…
    comment by ItsMe000001 · 2018-06-03 · in Facebook moving away from React Native?
  46. Actually now React Native uses the MIT license, this was changed in February: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/26684cf3adf4...
    comment by mecha9 · 2018-03-26 · in Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers are pulling out
  47. React Native has been updated to MIT too: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/LICENSE
    comment by focuser · 2018-03-26 · in Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers are pulling out
  48. …with popular ecosystems like react-native [0]. I always roll back to npm 4, even on node 9. [0] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/14209
    comment by TAForObvReasons · 2018-02-22 · in Do not use NPM 5.7
  49. People (including a team member of mine) are still commenting on https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8475 which has been iceboxed and never re-opened. Same problem, which made the RN team seem very unreceptive. Indeed, I think…
    comment by Jeaye · 2017-12-28 · in Nearing the Babel 7.0 Release
  50. Primarily since it's been an issue for over a year, reported here https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8475 as well, with no help from the RN team. > Also, that doesn't sound like a Babel issue, as I've compiled JS files that…
    comment by Jeaye · 2017-12-28 · in Nearing the Babel 7.0 Release