HackerReposA FIELD GUIDE TO OPEN SOURCE
ProSponsor the shelf♧ 0
← Back to top all-time
react
react-native
C++2015–2025
react / react-native

react-native

A framework for building native applications using React

Web DevelopmentMobile & Desktop
Explore on GitHubRead Hacker News discussions
129Distinct people
157Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
126.9KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

A framework for building native applications using React

GitHub

Where it is used

  • Discord — “How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native” Source

What people are saying

i am sad to say that lists and tables are totally unsolved problems, look how many issues there are in react's virtualized list[1] (just an example, not picking on react) but i…

throwaway71271 used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year157 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-03-26 17:08:54 UTC to 2025-09-24 20:13:39 UTC.

0102030402015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 33 mentions; 13 submissions, 20 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 8 submissions, 10 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 42 mentions; 8 submissions, 34 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 3 submissions, 13 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 2 submissions, 4 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 3 submissions, 18 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 3 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 4 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025

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

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC331320
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18810
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC42834
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16313
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC624
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21318
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC633
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC642
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

6 sources
K0nserv·Dec 25, 2019
I opened a random file(HippyBridge.h[0]) and it looks very similar to React Native's RCTBridge.h[1] which leads me to believe Hippy is either a fork of React Native or heavily "inspired" by it. A lot of the comments and symbols match React Native's 1-to-1. EDIT: I've read through more of the source and compared it to React Native. Like Jarred mentioned[2] it probably started out 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
In Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent
Jarred·Dec 25, 2019
I dug around a little and installed their demo app in the iOS simulator: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hl3nk8jrcjleurj/hippy.mov?dl=0. Visually, the only interesting part of the demo app is the RefreshWrapper example Code-wise, the most interesting things I've seen: - They expose wrappers for native recycling list views[0]. React Native does this in JavaScript through VirtualizedList, however some have experienced performance issues with it[1] - They wrote their own flexbox layout library[2] (likely based on Yoga) - It works with both Vue[3] and React - Hippy supports web as a build target out of the box[4] (react-native-web is a 3rd party library) - Touch events work on the `<View />` component directly, instead of needing to wrap `<View />`'s in the `<Touchable />` components[5] - It uses a closed-source fork of libv8 on Android called X5[6
Read the rest
]. The API & coding style is quite similar to React Native, but the implementation seems different. I'm guessing this started as an internal fork of React Native and turned into a large refactor, 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]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/tree/master/packages/hippy-... [4]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/tree/master/packages/hippy-... [5]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/tree/master/packages/hippy-... [6]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/issues/9#issuecomment-56822...
In Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

A few shortcuts

/
Search the collection
?
Open this guide
Esc
Close dialogs and navigation

Your saved repositories and interests stay in this browser.