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react / react-native

react-native

A framework for building native applications using React

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129Distinct people
157Mentions
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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A framework for building native applications using React

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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…

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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 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.

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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

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tmsh·Dec 12, 2020
Top-scored projects: https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/ossf-criticality-sc... For JS: node│https://github.com/nodejs/node│JavaScript│73│0│3226│10│64.7│63│1517│2055│4.1│10499… react-native│https://github.com/facebook/react-native│JavaScript│71│0│2866│5│50.5│15│778│1694│3… react│https://github.com/facebook/react│JavaScript│91│0│1609│6│20.9│6│692│973│3.8│333619… gatsby│https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby│JavaScript│67│0│3873│3│83.3│2│2181│2526│1.9│118… three.js│https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js│JavaScript│130│0│1694│8│64.3│12│606│801│3.1│229… bootstrap│https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap│JavaScript│113│0│1360│7│21.7│9│729│912│2.1│14966… material-ui│https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui│JavaScript│76│0│2256│7│53.8│43│1561│1826│2.… odo
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o│https://github.com/odoo/odoo│JavaScript│79│0│1761│4│131.1│0│6105│7104│1.9│50311│0.… next.js│https://github.com/vercel/next.js│JavaScript│50│0│1415│5│54.6│426│1596│2194│3.0│43… Rocket.Chat│https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat│JavaScript│67│0│773│4│28.8│135│1242│2002… cypress│https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress│JavaScript│70│0│235│5│27.7│29│934│1573│2.5│7… amphtml│https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml│JavaScript│64│0│1055│8│56.7│118│1317│1848│1.… amphtml│https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml│JavaScript│64│0│1055│8│56.7│118│1317│1848│1.… amphtml│https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml│JavaScript│64│0│1055│8│56.7│118│1317│1847│1.… that's a bug for 'amphtml' rite?
In Finding Critical Open Source Projects
dessant·Nov 21, 2020
That is exactly what happened to my Facebook account, and it only got reinstated after this issue: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395 Though mine was probably locked solely because of the way I've metodically checked out every configuration option, and used Firefox with fingerprint protection enabled. This whole ordeal made me realize that Facebook is sitting on personal data from possibly millions of profiles that are banned. I've read several reports about people logging in years after the account got suspended, and their personal data is still downloadable, but they are not offered further control of the data, such as deletion, which is illegal in the EU.
In FTC commissioner met with Apple regarding Facebook’s iOS 14 complaints
antonf·Nov 15, 2020
I think this is just engineer that works at Facebook created project with same name in their free time, not Facebook the company made such a naming decision. Here's why I think so: commits coming from Facebook in facebook and facebook-experimental github orgs have additional metadata fields like "Reviewed By:", "Differential Revision:", "fbshipit-source-id:": https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/864cdf338369... Commits in hramos/label-actions repo don't follow this pattern: https://github.com/hramos/label-actions/commit/28c4884562c2a...
In “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”
dessant·Nov 15, 2020
And regarding the corporate exploitation of open source projects, I've just discovered that a Facebook employee reimplemented the app [1] using actions and published it using the same name and configuration syntax on the GitHub Marketplace [2], so I can no longer publish my app without renaming the project. Facebook was using my app in the React Native repository, until they have replaced it with their own implementation [3]. It would be nice if they weren't jerks and at least not casually seize the project name, but here we are. Meanwhile I'm still banned from Facebook for no reason, after I've recently signed up to use Wit.ai, and they illegally hold control of my personal data on Facebook and Wit.ai. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25033510 https://github.com/wit-ai/wit/issues/1946 [1] https://github.com/hramos/label-actions [2] h
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ttps://github.com/marketplace/actions/label-actions [3] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/f9c2157141b8...
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