React Native
is a mobile app development framework that enables the development of multi-platform Android and iOS apps using native UI elements.
- It is based on the JavaScriptCore runtime and Babel transformers. With this setup react native supports new
JavaScript
(ES6+) features, e.g. arrow functions, async/await etc.
- This famous framework for mobile app development started in the summer of 2013 as Facebook’s internal hackathon project.
- Its first public preview was released in January of 2015 at
Reactjs
Conference and in March of 2015, Facebook made React Native open and available on GitHub.