Now that Facebook has open-sourced the React Native code base, it’s free and available to all, so we can expect both its code and its ideas to seep into other tools and development platforms.

When code reuse and quick prototyping are top concerns, React Native performs exceptionally well. It is appropriate for enhancing legacy applications due to its capacity to interface with native ...

React Native simply becomes a third-party library that’s used in the native app and the React Native code then lives in what Walmart Labs calls an “Electrode Native MiniApp.” ...

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 ...

Brief: Walmart, the biggest U.S. retailer that reversed a sales decline with 12 straight quarters of same-store revenue growth, debuted Electrode Native, a tool that lets the retailer slowly migrate ...

React Native apps, being composed of interpreted JavaScript code, are among those apps. React Native might be seen as a competitor to Microsoft offerings such as Xamarin -- which uses C# -- and Visual ...

Instance lifecycle events: Native code can now respond to the react native instance being created, loaded, or destroyed. A brand new WebSocket stack: The existing WebSocket stack has been replaced ...