React Native: A year in review

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This post details the one-year anniversary of React Native's open-sourcing. It highlights the framework's evolution from a hackathon project to a widely adopted cross-platform mobile development solution. Key technical aspects include the challenges faced in early development (touch negotiation, performance, debugging), the decision to make it cross-platform, the development of the Android runtime and core components, and the significant community adoption with over 650 contributors. The post also describes the development of internal tools like GitHub bots (mention bot, shipit bot, issues bot) to manage the high volume of pull requests and issues, and the integration of React Native into other platforms like Windows and Tizen.