react-native-gifted-chat vs flash-list

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react-native-gifted-chat		flash-list
	Project
12	Mentions	25
13,210	Stars	4,939
-	Growth	2.8%
5.1	Activity	8.3
24 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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react-native-gifted-chat

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-native-gifted-chat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-30.

FlatList issues in React Native
2 projects | /r/reactnative | 30 Jun 2023

This is a well known chat for react native probably it does have anything you need https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat
Blown away by this framework! 2 Weeks ago, I'd never touched Mobile code. Today my first App was approved on the iOS store.
1 project | /r/reactnative | 19 May 2023

did you use https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat
what's the easiest way to implement a chat system?
1 project | /r/reactnative | 1 May 2023

Oh fyi if you’re using gifted chat, don’t forget to implement/patch : https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat/issues/2370 It boost the performance
Open Source Stream/SendBird Alternative?
5 projects | /r/reactnative | 18 Apr 2023

UI Components - React Native Gifted Chat
7 Popular React Native UI Component Libraries You Should Know
6 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2023

react-native-gifted-chat is the complete chat UI solution for your application. It offers fully customizable components, multiline text input, avatars, copying messages to the clipboard, attachment options, etc.
Anyone built a Chat app with React Native lately?
5 projects | /r/reactnative | 1 Dec 2022

I used https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat. Not perfect but way faster than me doing it from scratch. Had a hell of a time getting it to play nice on a bottom sheet though, and still feel like I had to hack in getting the keyboard to show up right.
Best dev tool for chat app
1 project | /r/androiddev | 29 Nov 2022
Gifted chat not displaying messages correctly
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 30 Aug 2022
Top React Native UI Component Libraries
8 projects | dev.to | 21 Dec 2021

Web-site: https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat GitHub stars: 9.4k Price: Free License: MIT License Demo: – Type of support: Community support via GitHub issues Documentation: Full documentation
Build a chat app with react-native-gifted-chat
3 projects | dev.to | 3 Sep 2021

As the demand for real-time communication grows, developers are looking for easy ways to add reliable communication channels to mobile apps. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build mobile chat apps for both iOS and Android in React Native using react-native-gifted-chat, a chat UI designed to empower app developers to build cross-platform chat apps.

flash-list

Posts with mentions or reviews of flash-list. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-29.

Is React Native really that bad?
3 projects | /r/reactnative | 29 Jun 2023

Also, yes, scrolling handling with lots of images can be a problem, but don't panic, React Native has some good partners 😉. Shopify created a library specifically to deal with this problem called FlashList ⚡ which is now the solution to this problem.
React native for Linux app development in 2023
7 projects | /r/reactnative | 6 Jun 2023
Flash News App React Native (Expo^)
3 projects | /r/reactnative | 5 Jun 2023
Flatlist starting to be very slow! (RN w/ Typescript)
1 project | /r/reactnative | 10 May 2023

Use flashlist
Best advanced sources for RN
4 projects | /r/reactnative | 3 May 2023
Improving FlatList Performance
1 project | /r/reactnative | 25 Apr 2023

FlashList is what you want https://shopify.github.io/flash-list/
Horizontal Flatlist in a vertical Flatlist
1 project | /r/reactnative | 23 Apr 2023

I think there's a lot of apps out there that have this type of navigation. I'm working myself on one like that :) It's doable, BUT you have to make sure to work on all sorts of perf improvements. You should also check out FlashList https://shopify.github.io/flash-list/
Powerfull apps
1 project | /r/reactnative | 2 Apr 2023

In my experience Flashlist from Shopify mostly solves the issue with large lists. I'd prefer if it was built-in to the platform, still...
need help with Shopify's Flash-List , react native
2 projects | /r/reactnative | 27 Mar 2023

It can't render same height items. I reported bug, still wait for response
TOP 6 React Native libraries with native performance ⚡️
9 projects | dev.to | 12 Jan 2023

2. FlashList

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-native-gifted-chat and flash-list you can also consider the following projects:

NativeBase - Mobile-first, accessible components for React Native & Web to build consistent UI across Android, iOS and Web.

recyclerlistview - High performance listview for React Native and web!

react-native - A framework for building native applications using React

react-native-fast-image - 🚩 FastImage, performant React Native image component.

react-native-reactions - A React Native animated reaction picker component ✨✨

flat-list-mvcp - "maintainVisibleContentPosition" prop support for Android react-native

react-native-paper - Material Design for React Native (Android & iOS)

react-native-big-list - This is a high performance list view for React Native with support for complex layouts using a similar FlatList usage to make easy the replacement. This list implementation for big list rendering on React Native works with a recycler focused on performance and memory usage and so it permits processing thousands items on the list.

chatkitty-js - Build chat in minutes with ChatKitty's real-time messaging framework.

react-native-vision-camera - 📸 A powerful, high-performance React Native Camera library.

XamChat - SignalR Chat Xamarin App