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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

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  1. …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
  2. 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
  3. …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
  4. …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
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. …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
  8. …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?
  9. ▲ 2
    What happened to react-native on Android yesterday
    story by pantalaimon · 2018-05-17 · 0 comments
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. ▲ 3
    Google broke many android apps yesterday: Cordova/ReactNative/Android Stdio
    story by izelnakri · 2018-03-21 · 0 comments
  13. …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
  14. ▲ 375
    React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook
    story by dabit3 · 2018-02-17 · 118 comments
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. …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
  19. ▲ 3
    React Native seems like it will keep BSD+Patents license
    story by csdreamer7 · 2017-10-07 · 0 comments
  20. ▲ 1
    Relicense React Native to MIT Along with React
    story by rakibtg · 2017-09-27 · 0 comments
  21. 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
  22. …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
  23. …* 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
  24. …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?
  25. …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
  26. ▲ 1
    React Native 0.48.0 Released
    story by owebmaster · 2017-09-05 · 0 comments
  27. …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
  28. 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
  29. …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
  30. 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
  31. …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
  32. …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”
  33. …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
  34. …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)
  35. ▲ 2
    Display:none in React Native
    story by tones411 · 2017-04-05 · 0 comments
  36. ▲ 1
    App Rejected from App Store #13011
    story by leviathan · 2017-03-25 · 0 comments
  37. 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
  38. …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
  39. …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
  40. …[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
  41. …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
  42. …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
  43. …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
  44. …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
  45. 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
  46. …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
  47. …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
  48. …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
  49. ▲ 1
    React Native 0.41.0 stable released
    story by cheeaun · 2017-02-03 · 0 comments
  50. …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