THthunderbong·Jun 4, 2026Submission
Realm is a mobile database: an alternative to SQLite and key-value stores
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Realm is a mobile database: an alternative to SQLite & key-value stores
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54 points · Open discussionYeah, this is something that we are aware of and that we need to solve. For now, you might find some inspiration in this github discussion: https://github.com/realm/realm-js/issues/141#issuecomment-27...
In Ready for Realtime and Scale: Announcing Realm Mobile Platform 1.0We're considering it depending on the level of interest. You can vote on it in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/realm/realm-js/issues/428
In Realm 1.0What part of it is closed source?
https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa
https://github.com/realm/realm-java
https://github.com/realm/realm-js
https://github.com/realm/realm-dotnet
Edit: Apparently not the guts of it, my bad :(
In Realm 1.0I have added an issue to request this support. Please comment and vote there https://github.com/realm/realm-js/issues/429
In Introducing Realm Xamarin: A Reactive Database for .NETFor those who don't have the time to watch all the videos, here's are the github links to the most interesting projects from Day 2:
NavigationExperimental: new multi-tab-aware navigation component https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/Librari...
cf. previous work on in-app "paths"by TaskRabbit http://tech.taskrabbit.com/blog/2015/09/21/react-native-exam...
Nuclide is an IDE for building react-native apps http://nuclide.io/docs/quick-start/getting-started/ source https://github.com/facebook/nuclide
Realm is a mobile database: an alternative to SQLite & key-value stores. Previously iOS and Java, now works with react native too https://github.com/realm/realm-js
Exponent lets you write apps in js w/o need for iOS/Android toolchain https://exponentjs.com/
Static site generator using React.js https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby
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act Native for Web: A framework for building Native Web Apps https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web
The source code of wp-calypso, an example of a large React.js project: https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/tree/master/client
enzyme's shallow-DOM testing utilities for React https://github.com/airbnb/enzyme#shallow-rendering
react-native-mock: a fully mocked and test-friendly version of react native https://github.com/lelandrichardson/react-native-mock
graphene: GraphQL framework for Python https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene and their hosted version http://resolver.cloud/
Not out of the box at the moment. But it would technically be possible to do. Feel free to post a suggestion to https://github.com/realm/realm-js/issues so we can see the interest.
In Introducing Realm React NativeYou can add any object as a property of another object, and access them via dot notation: https://realm.io/docs/react-native/latest/#object-properties
You can probably find some more advanced examples in our Swift docs https://realm.io/docs/swift/latest/#relationships
We’re barely scratching the surface of this in our query language, which is heavily NSPredicate-inspired, but we might add more OpenCypher-ish features in the future. (And we’d greatly appreciate concrete use-cases or anything else you can share in a GitHub issue to help us prioritize development) https://github.com/realm/realm-js/issues
In Introducing Realm React Native