TOP 6 React Native libraries with native performance ⚡️

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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  • react-native-mmkv

    ⚡️ The fastest key/value storage for React Native. ~30x faster than AsyncStorage!

  • 1. MMKV

  • react-native-skia

    High-performance React Native Graphics using Skia

  • 4. Skia

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • MMKV

    An efficient, small mobile key-value storage framework developed by WeChat. Works on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and POSIX.

  • This library uses MMKV key-value storage and JSI to communicate between the JS side and the native side very quickly and synchronously. It is a suitable replacement for slow AsyncStorage. Follow this guide to migrate from AsyncStorage and get 30x faster on read and write operations in your app.

  • flash-list

    A better list for React Native

  • 2. FlashList

  • react-native-reanimated

    React Native's Animated library reimplemented

  • 3. Reanimated 2

  • recyclerlistview

    High performance listview for React Native and web!

  • FlashList is based on RecyclerListView but has an API similar to FlatList, which makes migration very simple and has many additional features. For example, FlashList provides metrics API, which allows you to measure performance problems and find proper params configuration for your list component. Also, it supports animation with Reanimated and layouts like Masonry.

  • react-native-fiesta

    🎉 A set of celebration animations powered by @shopify/react-native-skia. Engage more with your users by celebrating in your React Native application.

  • If you need complex animations or you want to animate something besides native components, Skia is your choice. Skia is a base rendering engine for Flutter and Chrome written in C++. React Native version provides access to Skia API using direct JSI calls, which makes it close to native performance with minimum overhead. As a result, you can build animations like this:

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • react-native-quick-sqlite

    Discontinued Fast SQLite for react-native.

  • 5. Quick SQLite

  • react-native-vision-camera

    📸 A powerful, high-performance React Native Camera library.

  • 6. Vision Camera

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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