react-native

This framework enables building native mobile applications for Android and iOS using React, allowing developers to write JavaScript that renders to native platform UI components. Unlike hybrid webview-based approaches, it uses native platform APIs directly, ensuring UI gestures, accessibility, and performance behave as users expect on each OS. It supports fast iteration with Fast Refresh, applying JavaScript code changes instantly without rebuilding the native app. Native Modules allow synchronous, type-safe calls to platform-specific code, and there is a large ecosystem of existing libraries. With nearly 126,000 stars and recent commits as of June 2026, it is a mature and actively maintained project, though its growth signal is not notable. It suits teams with frontend developers experienced in React who want to target multiple mobile platforms with a shared codebase. It is not ideal for teams needing full native performance or very platform-specific UI where using native Android or iOS SDKs directly is preferable.

Choose this framework when building cross-platform mobile apps with a shared React codebase and you want native UI components rather than webviews. Consider native Android (Kotlin/Java) or iOS (Swift/Objective-C) development if you require maximum platform-specific optimisation or access to the latest OS features before React Native supports them.

Typically used in consumer or enterprise mobile applications where teams want to reuse React knowledge across platforms and maintain a single JavaScript codebase. Common use cases include apps with standard mobile UI patterns, such as social media clients, e-commerce apps, or internal business tools requiring native performance and access to device APIs.

Latest commit: 2026-06-09. Activity data is based on daily RepoPi snapshots of the GitHub repository.