Instead of compiling down to native code, React Native takes your application and runs it using the host platform's JavaScript engine, without blocking the main UI thread.

The JavaScript code that actually runs in the app is handled by Chakra. To support development of React Native apps, Microsoft has released the React Native extension for Visual Studio Code.

Less than a year after React Native was introduced as a new-age way to develop native iOS and Android mobile apps, the JavaScript-based technology has become one of the most popular open source ...

A look at six crucial tips that will help mobile developers become better React Native developers.

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 ...

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 ...