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React Native

Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.

Fig. 1
React Native's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
00.250.50.751AprMayJunJulAugSept
React Native%

Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.

Fig. 2
New GitHub repos a week: react-native
02004006006 Jul20 Jul3 Aug17 Aug31 Aug21 Sept5 Oct19 Oct
react-native

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Fig. 3
npm downloads a week: react-native
05.0M10.0M15.0M20.0M6 Jul20 Jul3 Aug17 Aug31 Aug14 Sept28 Sept12 Oct19 Oct
react-native

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Job ads naming it, by week

Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names React Native. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.

  1. 10 Aug 1
  2. 17 Aug 2
  3. 24 Aug 1
  4. 31 Aug 0
  5. 7 Sept 0
  6. 14 Sept 3
  7. 21 Sept 2
  8. 28 Sept 0
  9. 5 Oct 0
  10. 12 Oct 1
  11. 19 Oct 3
  12. 26 Oct 4

Biggest stories, last 90 days

  1. Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin1.3K pts · 950 comments · 10 Sept
  2. Show HN: Gluestack – Open-Source UI Components for React and React Native6 pts · 1 comments · 27 Aug
  3. Show HN: Open source React Native debugging studio6 pts · 1 comments · 1 Aug
  4. Show HN: MobileCode – OpenCode with React Native Previews5 pts · 1 comments · 7 Sept
  5. Ask HN: React Native or Flutter when the back end is Node?5 pts · 15 comments · 28 Sept
  6. Show HN: Premium React Native screens for building apps faster5 pts · 3 comments · 6 Aug
  7. I made my React Native iOS path rendering ≥27× faster with Skia Graphite2 pts · 0 comments · 23 Aug
  8. OpenAI-realtime-toolkit: voice agents for React Native2 pts · 0 comments · 12 Aug

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