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react-native-windows
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microsoft / react-native-windows

react-native-windows

A framework for building native Windows apps with React.

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76Mentions
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17.4KGitHub stars
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What it is

A framework for building native Windows apps with React.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year76 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-04-13 17:36:49 UTC to 2026-03-25 18:35:34 UTC.

05101520252016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 2 submissions, 9 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 23 mentions; 1 submissions, 22 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 1 submissions, 13 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 3 submissions, 11 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1129
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC23122
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14113
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14311
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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bigiain·May 17, 2020
I would like to draw to your attention the magnitude of that task, with a recent link from another HN comment discussion: http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react-native and https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/blob/maste... Turns out left-pad.js is on line 8571 of that 14+k line yarn.lock file. How many React Native developers do you suppose have reviewed every line of code in every library referenced in that file? (Or even how many engineering teams at any React-using Unicorn size startups or FAANG have exhaustively reviewed all those lines of code?) Is FaceBook a "trusted publisher" of React? Is npm a "trusted publisher" of Node libraries? Was Azer Koçulu a "trusted publisher" of left-pad.js? (And it's turtles all the way down. Is Microsoft a "trusted publisher" of Windows? Is Dell a "trusted publisher" of bios? Is Intel a "t
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rusted publisher" of cpu micro-code? Is Western Digital a "trusted publisher" of hard drive firmware? Is every unnamed silicon manufacturer and pcb and subcomponent assembly house a "trusted publisher" of the embedded code in their network card/usb hub/battery management chip/whatever?) I _do_ agree with you, but these days it's very difficult, at least in much/most of the software world, to determine the height of the people/libraries claiming to be "giants" offering their shoulders to stand on. (And like with React, it's more and more difficult to determine which actual giants are standing on bedrock, and which have a foothold with quicksand uderneath it...)
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andymatuschak·Mar 16, 2020
I can't suggest anything, I'm afraid—I haven't worked with Windows and Linux targets using React Native. But it appears that there are React Native rendering targets for Windows and Linux (https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows and https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop). I'd probably start by looking there. And of course, because React Native can build to web, one could ship Electron apps for platforms with lower priority for your business.
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