react-native-skia
High-performance React Native Graphics using Skia (by Shopify)
react-native-svg
SVG library for React Native, React Native Web, and plain React web projects. [Moved to: https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-svg] (by react-native-svg)
| react-native-skia | react-native-svg | |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 1 | |
| 7,563 | 6,560 | |
| 2.6% | - | |
| 9.5 | 10.0 | |
| 5 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
| TypeScript | Java | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
react-native-skia
Posts with mentions or reviews of react-native-skia.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-10.
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React Three Ecosystem
Another example of this is React-Native-Skia: https://shopify.github.io/react-native-skia/docs/getting-sta...
It uses a virtual DOM to diff the desired state and the current one: https://shopify.github.io/react-native-skia/docs/canvas/cont...
If you're interested how it's implemented, that's the source code: https://github.com/Shopify/react-native-skia/blob/main/packa...
- High-Performance React Native Graphics Using Skia
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Dynamic Island Liquid Animation with React Native Skia
If you've got another setup (e.g. raw React Native) refer to the setup on the Skia Docs and the Reanimated Docs as there are additional setup instructions.
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WebKit Switching to Skia for 2D Graphics Rendering
It works wonderfully well for my react native app, see https://shopify.github.io/react-native-skia/ for details!
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Going down the rabbit hole of the canvas
I stopped further tracking of the source code. As an end of this blog post, I would like to share my finding of the React Native Skia which brings the Skia Graphics Library to React Native. You can get more information from a Shopify Engineering blog Getting Started with React Native Skia. Hope it helps, see you next post.
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React Native in Next.JS for Hybrid Web/Mobile Monorepo: Should I give up? ($250 Bounty)
This is the latest version of the issue (haven't had much luck getting support from the Skia team throughout this), I'm happy to get on a call to show you further if you have any experience with dealing with these monorepos or Skia for web. The moment we run a successful Next.js build I'll paypal you $250 on the spot.
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Looking for articles about react-native-skia
The docs for react-native-skia docs seem spare and the only linked tutorials are in video form. Can anyone recommend any good written resources?
- React native for Linux app development in 2023
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React Native is Multi Threaded
By using libraries like Reanimated, React Native MMKV, and React Native Skia, you leverage the native thread. However, I know there are developers building amazing things who think outside the box. I'm always thrilled when I read engineering blogs from companies like Netflix, Meta, and Shopify. They create solutions beyond the limits.
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Revolutionizing Data with React Native ECharts 1.1: Now More Interactive!
@wuba/react-native-echarts, An awesome charting library for React Native, built upon Apache ECharts and leveraging react-native-svg and react-native-skia. Offers significantly better performance compared to WebView-based solutions. If you want to learn more about the project's design principles, you can click here.
react-native-svg
Posts with mentions or reviews of react-native-svg.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-01.
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Using Apache ECharts in React Native - wrn-echarts
We have developed an open source graphics library for react native APP, which is based on Apache ECharts and uses RNSVG or RNSkia for rendering in a way that is almost identical to using it in the web, and can satisfy most graphics situations. The project source code is available at https://github.com/wuba/wrn-echarts .
What are some alternatives?
When comparing react-native-skia and react-native-svg you can also consider the following projects:
react-native-reanimated - React Native's Animated library reimplemented
react-native-echarts - 📈 React Native ECharts Library: An awesome charting library for React Native, built upon Apache ECharts and leveraging react-native-svg and react-native-skia. Offers significantly better performance compared to WebView-based solutions.
hermes - A JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native.
echarts - Apache ECharts is a powerful, interactive charting and data visualization library for browser
yoga - Yoga is an embeddable layout engine targeting web standards.
perfect-freehand - Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines.