Expo – open-source platform for making universal apps for Android, iOS, and web

• capacitor

  154 11,126 9.4 JavaScript

  Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the Web ⚡️

  

> “Make a progressive web app”: yes, that might be the way to go; provided you can get the users to ‘install’ it on their devices.

Assuming you're talking about the not-well-known process of adding PWAs to the Home screen, it's worth noting that you can package web apps for app store distribution as well. https://capacitorjs.com/

• expo

  111 29,062 10.0 TypeScript

  An open-source framework for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web.

  

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  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.

  

• tamagui

  55 9,992 10.0 TypeScript

  Style React fast with 100% parity on React Native, an optional UI kit, and optimizing compiler.

  

• solito

  26 3,243 8.4 TypeScript

  🧍‍♂️ React Native + Next.js, unified.

It has become very practical / doable in the recent year or so. In my experience, if you have lot of frontend web experience, the easiest way to ship a RN app is by using Solito [0]. Also check out Nativewind [1] which allows you to style native apps the same way like you would on web. I was able to ship the first version of our app in about 1.5 weeks with this stack. Also checkout Tamagui [2].

[0] - https://solito.dev

• Titanium

  25 2,734 8.7 Objective-C

  🚀 Native iOS and Android Apps with JavaScript

  

I remember Appcelerator. In fact I'm still using it to this day. The core Titanium is now open source and the Apps are "true" native. Give them another look and you may be surprised: https://titaniumsdk.com

• fyne

  150 23,218 9.6 Go

  Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design

  

If you fancy Go, there's Fyne. I don't work in the space so I cannot judge it.

https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne

• react-native-reanimated

  61 8,387 9.8 TypeScript

  React Native's Animated library reimplemented

  

FYI react-native-reanimated (https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-reanimated) is not the Animated API from React Native. react-native-reanimated allows JS code to run on a UI thread that is able to synchronously modify layout, providing alternative synchronous ways for you to hook into the layouting. For instance, as opposed to the asynchronous `measure()` method provided by React Native to measure layouts, react-native-reanimated allows one to call their version of `measure()` (https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-reanimated/docs/api/...) to perform the same operation on the UI thread, synchronously.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• react-native

  524 115,758 10.0 C++

  A framework for building native applications using React

  

I meant both Animated APIs - neither is able to perform synchronous layouts - because react native is not able to do that. That’s the issue that’s stopping the page sheet controllers being added to react native. I actually was helping getting this added, but we never managed to get the layout issues fixed - https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/34834

The measure function you mention isn’t co-ordinated to the layout, so you could read it while a layout is pending and get old data - but that doesn't really matter for most cases

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