by Jamon Holmgren

Jamon Holmgren

Co-founder/CTO of Infinite Red

Twitter: @jamonholmgren

infinite.red

• Early 2015: React Native announced

• 2015-2018: Many third-party forks

• September 2018: WebView extracted

History of

• Android released Sept. 2015

• 15 React Native developers

• Ignite - github.com/infinitered/ignite

• Reactotron - github.com/infinitered/reactotron

• Chain React - infinite.red/ChainReactConf

React Native Adoption at

React Native at

• Market Place tab

• Monorepo

• 5+ other internal and external apps

React Native

• How does it get merged?

• Facebook's needs?

• Stagnation (it was bad -- 700+ unmerged pull requests, thousands of open issues)

• Many WebView-related issues

React Native

• iOS

• Android

• None for both!

React Native

React Native

React Native

• github.com/react-native-community

React Native

• github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals

React Native

React Native

• Simple drop-in
  replacement

React Native

• iOS - Objective-C

• Android - Java

• Working with core WebView -- not yet extracted

• Maintaining compatibility

React Native

• 165 merged pull requests

• 71 releases

• 57 contributors

• Follow my co-maintainer, Thibault Malbranche: @titozzz

React Native

• Working much closer with the React Native community

• ~50 open pull requests and dropping

• Under 500 open issues

React Native

• ~50 components

Thanks to React Helsinki and Smartly.io for hosting!
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Infinite Red: https://infinite.red

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