Like myriad hybrid techniques, React Native is based on JavaScript. Unlike many other alternatives, though, it doesn't provide a cross-platform wrapper to access native functionality on devices.

React Native lets developers build native mobile apps via JavaScript, leveraging the same design as the React JavaScript UI library. But users have found some issues with the technology ...

Facebook announced today that its React Native library is now available on Github. The library allows you to build native iOS and Android applications with JavaScript and Facebook’s React library.

React Native is Facebook’s version of its React JavaScript framework for building native mobile applications. Today’s announcement doesn’t come as a huge surprise to anybody who has followed ...

Facebook built the React JavaScript library so its engineering ... by open sourcing the final part of the React trilogy, React Native For Android. You might wonder why Facebook would give away ...

Microsoft’s TypeScript language is approaching its 2.2 release with an emphasis on support for React Native, Facebook’s JavaScript framework for building native mobile apps. The upgrade has ...

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Within the space of two weeks, two major enterprise dev teams announced they have abandoned React Native, the Facebook-originated technology unveiled five years ago as a new way to code native mobile ...

Facebook has released a new open source JavaScript engine, Hermes, to speed up start times for native Android apps built with Facebook's own React Native JavaScript framework. Facebook software ...

What is React Native? React Native applications are written using a mixture of Javascript and XML-esque markup, known as JSX. React Native is an open-source JavaScript framework, designed for ...