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react / react-native

react-native

A framework for building native applications using React

Web DevelopmentMobile & Desktop
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129Distinct people
157Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
126.9KGitHub stars
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.

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.

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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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jacobp100·Jul 26, 2023
I meant both Animated APIs - neither is able to perform synchronous layouts - because react native is not able to do that. That’s the issue that’s stopping the page sheet controllers being added to react native. I actually was helping getting this added, but we never managed to get the layout issues fixed - https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/34834 The measure function you mention isn’t co-ordinated to the layout, so you could read it while a layout is pending and get old data - but that doesn't really matter for most cases
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dimmke·May 24, 2023
>most accessibility support is rooted in best practices for every user. This isn't quite true, when you get into things like using aria attributes. I definitely wouldn't put it at 99.99%. And I think a lot of vendors of accessibility software get to skate where others would have their feet held to the fire. They could be doing more to make their software easier to use and for developers to make it accessible. I used to work as a contractor for the CDC, so I have experience in web development that is held to a higher accessibility standard (we had an actual real person who would verify our work and certify that it was accessible.) Some things that come to mind are color contrast ratios where you have to pass different levels (AA vs. AAA) https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ And being able to navigate a site with a keyboard, or ann
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ounce when sections change. That stuff isn't automatic. It might be baked into whatever framework you're using, but those frameworks have bugs too. Here's an example I ran into with React Native, and it's still not clear if they ever fixed it or if it just got closed as stale: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/27989
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