Hacker GitHub

← All repos

react/react-native

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 126,853 C++

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)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. This is strictly for transforming JS. It has existed for over a year, here https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8475 as well. It's certainly possible that the babel team was never aware of it, but I'd imagine this has to do with…
    comment by Jeaye · 2017-12-28 · in Nearing the Babel 7.0 Release
  2. …babel is the single most unreliable and unusable piece of the build machine. The issue to blame is https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/12590 which has been "iceboxed" and not fixed. In short, I have to patch metro each build,…
    comment by Jeaye · 2017-12-28 · in Nearing the Babel 7.0 Release
  3. If I'm not mistaken, https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/b58207e61fcb... enables the new implementation in RN. So it'll be in React Native 0.49.
    comment by spicyj · 2017-09-27 · in React 16
  4. …are responding to a question about react NATIVE, which still has the patent grenade (see below). https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/PATENTS
    comment by Godel_unicode · 2017-09-26 · in React 16
  5. …* GraphQL - https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/blob/master/PATENTS * react-native - https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/PATENTS * PlanOut - https://github.com/facebook/planout/blob/master/PATENTS * Flow -…
    comment by cies · 2017-09-22 · in Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
  6. …new programming paradigms and languages. But... RN still has huge blocking bugs like this one: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/14209 that seem to pop up at random times, and not always for the same developers. I thought…
    comment by efficax · 2017-09-20 · in Ask HN: Companies who adopted React Native over a year ago, do you regret it?
  7. …every default native control wrapped? Edit: what a beautiful example of what I'm talking about: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/371
    comment by ryanwaggoner · 2017-09-11 · in Basecamp 3 for iOS: Hybrid Architecture
  8. …some pain points: - If you want to build a chat app, forget about well working sticky text input. ( https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/371 ) - All the dev time you have saved with hot reloading will be lost if you hit the…
    comment by pawelwentpawel · 2017-07-07 · in Going Mobile With React Native
  9. Thanks. Is that's really what's happening with React Native's built-in button though? https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/Librari... if (color && Platform.OS === 'ios') { textStyles.push({color: color}); } else if (color)…
    comment by Kiro · 2017-06-23 · in Google’s Flutter = React and Java Swing
  10. …In the last 2 days React Native has closed 773 other issues because they consider it low priority: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues?q=label%3AIc... This gives me low confidence that React Native will be a high quality…
    comment by mythz · 2017-05-28 · in Exploring Flutter for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
  11. Haven't tried this myself, but this might be what you're looking for: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/9146#issueco...
    comment by dounan · 2017-05-25 · in Optimizing React Rendering
  12. …JVM. scnr I use Strings for arguments in production and it's faster, so maybe try that out. :) [0] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8780 [1] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/10504 [2]…
    comment by cel1ne · 2017-05-16 · in One month with React Native
  13. …also sometimes uses alpha versions of React. It is correct to depend on React 16 alpha 6." source: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/13291 "At times, React Native will depend on an alpha version of React – this happens in…
    comment by bigato · 2017-04-24 · in A response to “An experienced JavaScript dev’s account of learning React”
  14. …code from time to time. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43470160/in-a-react-nativ... [2] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/13530 [3] https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-blur
    comment by nathan_f77 · 2017-04-18 · in Creating a memory leak with Java
  15. …of these platforms [10]. [1] https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/react-native/blob/ubuntu/REA... [2] https://github.com/facebook/react-native [3] https://github.com/facebook/react-native [4] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows…
    comment by migueloller · 2017-04-11 · in Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
  16. Not only that, the team is resistant to enhancing the build system. Example of one of my struggles: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/11711 On a side note, their build scripts are all js and node is probably my last choice for…
    comment by stevepotter · 2017-03-14 · in Introducing Create React Native App
  17. …our decision to go with it over a year ago we've never thought even once about going back. [1] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/wiki/Roadmap
    comment by migueloller · 2017-03-14 · in React Native Navigation Library
  18. …it wasn't. Both navigation projects have been on React Native's public roadmap for several months: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/wiki/Roadmap/_compa... Improved navigation has been one of the RN community's highest-voted feature…
    comment by evv · 2017-03-14 · in React Native Navigation Library
  19. …[1]: https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation [2]: https://reactnavigation.org/ [3]: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/Librari... [4]: https://github.com/exponent/ex-navigation [5]:…
    comment by jwarren · 2017-03-14 · in React Native Navigation Library
  20. …packaging process feels opaque to me though. It's not clear to me, for instance, whether Expo uses https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/package... or whether it has some kind of different packaging process. Likewise, a…
    comment by andrewfong · 2017-03-13 · in Introducing Create React Native App
  21. …and "A warning from Apple [resolved, not about React Native]": https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/12778
    comment by jameside · 2017-03-13 · in Introducing Create React Native App
  22. …need a separate build task running concurrently to feed JS files to the main watch/build task.) [1] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/11932
    comment by whatever_dude · 2017-02-22 · in Announcing TypeScript 2.2
  23. …DOM, and it also has a "shadow" view hierarchy, which is very similar to the concept of shadow DOM. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/React/V...
    comment by LeoNatan25 · 2017-02-07 · in React Native at Instagram
  24. You may be interested in https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/a3457486e39d... . It's likely not production-ready yet but hopefully will become really good soon.
    comment by spicyj · 2017-02-06 · in React Native at Instagram
  25. …but but the React Native team is working on further improving this. Check out Spencer's commit ( https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/a3457486e39d... ) for a sneak peek of what's coming up :).
    comment by martin_bigio · 2017-02-06 · in React Native at Instagram
  26. …For Fresco, I think Balazs provided a pretty good response here on how Fresco uses the finalizers ( https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8711#issueco... ). If you still think there's an issue here, I'll direct Balazs to this…
    comment by astreet · 2017-02-06 · in Tempted to Abandon React Native for Native Android
  27. …which is an error in Java and especially Android. I reported a couple of bugs, but got dismissed: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8711 https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8780…
    comment by fn1 · 2017-02-04 · in Tempted to Abandon React Native for Native Android
  28. …how this compares with other projects like: https://github.com/react-community/react-navigation and https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/docs/Us... ? Awesome docs, BTW!
    comment by ivan_ah · 2017-01-30 · in React Router: Declarative Routing for React
  29. Having said that, the official roadmap ( https://github.com/facebook/react-native/wiki/Roadmap ) mentions a navigation library should be coming in Jan, and the timing and people involved seems to line up with this project.
    comment by joncrocks · 2017-01-27 · in Introducing React Navigation for React Native
  30. I believe this is the new navigation library as was described here : https://github.com/facebook/react-native/wiki/Roadmap So I would expect that it may well be folded into core react-native in time.
    comment by joncrocks · 2017-01-27 · in Introducing React Navigation for React Native
  31. …that time and has been pushed) for this release ever since it was added to the React Native roadmap https://github.com/facebook/react-native/wiki/Roadmap A good navigation library is the one thing that was missing for React Native and I'm…
    comment by migueloller · 2017-01-27 · in Introducing React Navigation for React Native
  32. RN is great but it disturbs me that this bug: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/4968 Which is severe but has been open for so long just hasn't had any attention from the core team. It's clearly a massive problem and the…
    comment by colinramsay · 2017-01-09 · in A monthly release cadence for React Native
  33. …a date that correlates to the licence addendum changes, this is the first official tagged release : https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.14.... As you can see it is dated: "10 Nov 2015" shortly after the licence was…
    comment by javascript_fn · 2016-10-14 · in Facebook React.js License
  34. …while publishing with NativeScript is identical to publishing regular iOS and Android apps. [1] https://github.com/facebook/react-native [2] https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript
    comment by jesseruder · 2016-09-27 · in Exponent – Build native apps in JS that work across both iOS and Android
  35. …because of their extensive use of Finalizers: https://github.com/facebook/fresco/issues/1363 https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8780 Apart from being unreliable, bad design, it slows GC and instantiation by orders of…
    comment by cel1ne · 2016-08-10 · in A Comprehensive Study on the Energy Efficiency of Java Thread-Safe Collections [pdf]
  36. …nothing for someone afraid of rumbling around in the RN source code to solve things like this https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/7720
    comment by vikeri · 2016-06-16 · in With React Native it’s not all sugar and spice
  37. let me guess, you were hoping for npm install -g react-native git clone http://github.com/facebook/react-native/android-boilerplate cd .... npm run
    comment by smrtinsert · 2016-04-18 · in React Native: A year in review
  38. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.18....
    comment by kcorbitt · 2016-03-30 · in React Native for OS X
  39. It's actually just a fork of React native: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/graphs/contributors https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-desktop/graphs/contribu... so very few of the 5.5k commits came from the OS X port
    comment by conradev · 2016-03-30 · in React Native for OS X
  40. That's pretty cool way to structure websites: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/website... The chain of build steps is quite complex though... but hey, if it works...
    comment by ivan_ah · 2016-03-15 · in Show HN: Using Google AMP to build a Medium-style Jekyll site that loads in 65ms
  41. …at the react native[1][2] website for an example. [1] http://facebook.github.io/react-native/ [2] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/website...
    comment by vjeux · 2016-03-15 · in Show HN: Using Google AMP to build a Medium-style Jekyll site that loads in 65ms
  42. …interesting projects from Day 2: NavigationExperimental: new multi-tab-aware navigation component https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/Librari... cf. previous work on in-app "paths"by TaskRabbit…
    comment by ivan_ah · 2016-02-26 · in React.js Conf 2016 [videos]
  43. …to the point of being unusable. The list view also has issues. See e.g. issues like these: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/3452 https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/567 https://github.com/facebook/react-native/iss…
    comment by mbrock · 2015-11-06 · in Flutter – Cross-platform mobile framework from Google
  44. …of the functionality. [1] https://apphub.io/ [2] https://github.com/AppHubPlatform/apphub-ios [3] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/3189
    comment by netinstructions · 2015-11-06 · in CodePush by Microsoft
  45. …Meteor code into the JavaScriptCore background view, now that React Native polyfills WebSockets ( https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/890 )... then you'd just need to test for whether your app is being loaded into React Native.…
    comment by btown · 2015-10-21 · in Why I’m not staking my future on MeteorJS
  46. …https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-desktop Currently just "hacking weekend" level maturity. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/247#issuecom... I have never actually tried it, but this one is real native controls. It’s on my…
    comment by douglasheriot · 2015-10-19 · in React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10
  47. …RN for the desktop platforms. Jordan Byron already contributed a port of React Native to Apple TV: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/2618#issueco...
    comment by evv · 2015-09-14 · in React Native for Android
  48. …at process._tickCallback (node.js:337:13) I was able to fix it by replacing this line: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/package... By this: return fileWatcher.getWatchers().then(([watcher]) =>…
    comment by eloisant · 2015-09-14 · in React Native for Android
  49. Interestingly, they seem to be using JavaScriptCore instead of V8 as their JavaScript interpreter: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/42eb5464fd8a65...
    comment by nolanl · 2015-09-14 · in React Native for Android
  50. "Today, we're happy to release React Native for Android." https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/42eb5464fd8a... This comes in time for Facebook to meet its pledge. http://www.reactnativeandroid.com/
    comment by mrdrozdov · 2015-09-14 · in React Native for Android