We open sourced React Native last week and the community reception blew away all our expectations! So many of you tried it, made cool stuff with it, raised many issues and even submitted pull requests to fix them! The entire team wants to say thank you!
\n#reactnative is like when you get a new expansion pack, and everybody is running around clueless about which NPC to talk to for the quests
— Ryan Florence (@ryanflorence) March 28, 2015Give us 6 months. At Facebook, we strive to only open-source projects that we are using in production. While the Android backend for React Native is starting to work (see video below at 37min), it hasn’t been shipped to any users yet. There’s a lot of work that goes into open-sourcing a project, and we want to do it right so that you have a great experience when using it.
\nIf you are getting started with React Native, you should absolutely use this tutorial from Colin Eberhardt. It goes through all the steps to make a reasonably complete app.
\n\nColin also blogged about his experience using React Native for a few weeks and gives his thoughts on why you would or wouldn’t use it.
\nSpencer Ahrens and I had the great pleasure to talk about React Native on The Changelog podcast. It was really fun to chat for an hour, I hope that you’ll enjoy listening to it. :)
\n\nLess than 24 hours after React Native was open sourced, Simarpreet Singh built an Hacker News reader app from scratch. It’s unbelievable how fast he was able to pull it off!
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