React Native: A year in review

This post reviews the first year of React Native since its open-sourcing. It details its origins as a hackathon project, the motivation for its development (faster mobile development iterations), its use in shipping the Ads Manager app on iOS and Android with significant code sharing (85%), and its subsequent open-sourcing for Android. It highlights rapid adoption, community contributions (over 50% of commits from external contributors), and the development of tools like GitHub bots (mention bot, issues bot, shipit bot) to manage the influx of pull requests and issues. It also mentions the release of the Facebook SDK for React Native and partnerships with Microsoft and Samsung to bring React Native to Windows and Tizen platforms respectively.