Facebook found that initial principles of React Native—serving as a single asynchronous, serializable, and batched bridge between JavaScript and native apps—made it harder to build features.

Announced at last week’s React Conf, React Native is a version of the popular React JavaScript library targeted solely at mobile developers. On the surface React Native looks very similar to ...

React Native compiles apps written in Javascript into native views, providing the platform-specific look and feel on iOS and Android devices that users are accustomed to.

Facebook has built a JavaScript engine, called Hermes, that improves the performance of React Native applications on Android devices. While the open-source engine is optimized for React Native ...

After reaching a React Native performance impasse while building internal apps, Facebook engineers identified the JavaScript engine as a primary bottleneck, so they created and open sourced their own ...

React Native is an open-source JavaScript framework, designed for building apps on multiple platforms like iOS, Android, and also web applications, utilizing the very same code base.

Facebook built the React JavaScript library so its engineering team could build interfaces for iOS, Android, and web with the same code. Now it's giving ...