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Top 23 React Native Open-Source Projects
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Project mention: AI React Native Form Builder: The Complete Data-Entry Stack in 2026 | dev.to | 2026-09-07
The takeaway isn't "AI writes forms now." AI has written forms for two years. The takeaway is that the useful surface has moved: from generating the visible pretty layer to generating the whole data-entry pipeline (migration, RLS, typed schema, controlled state, keyboard behaviour, visible errors, and a mutation that actually persists) from one natural-language description, in seconds, into code you own. All on the Expo + React Native stack you already know.
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AppSignal
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storybook
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Project mention: 7 Free Tools and Resources for Building Well-Structured React Applications | dev.to | 2026-05-07Storybook is a tool for developing and documenting UI components in isolation. You write stories that render individual components with specific props, and Storybook displays them in a standalone browser environment that is separate from the main application. The v8 release significantly reduced configuration complexity, making it practical to add to an existing project without a major setup investment.
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Appwrite
Appwrite® - complete cloud infrastructure for your web, mobile and AI apps. Including Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, Hosting, Realtime and more
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Joplin
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS..
Project mention: ScribeDog alternatives - marktext, Zettlr, Joplin, and logseq | libhunt.com/r/scribedog | 2026-07-21Where Joplin is a note manager with sync, ScribeDog is a focused writing tool: true WYSIWYG Markdown editing on a plain folder of .md files — no database, no sync layer — with built-in local AI rewriting (Ollama/Jan.ai/LM Studio) and fully offline voice dictation. MIT-licensed, no telemetry, no account.
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expo
An open-source framework for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web.
# Expo Documentation > Expo is the official framework recommended by the React Native team for building production apps on Android, iOS, and the web. It is to React Native what Next.js is to React: the standard way to build, not an optional add-on. ## Get started - [Create a project](https://docs.expo.dev/get-started/create-a-project.md): Learn how to create a new Expo project. - [Set up your environment](https://docs.expo.dev/get-started/set-up-your-environment.md) - [Start developing](https://docs.expo.dev/get-started/start-developing.md) - [Next steps](https://docs.expo.dev/get-started/next-steps.md) ## AI - [AI agents and Expo overview](https://docs.expo.dev/agents.md): Build and publish Expo and React Native apps with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. - [Expo Skills for AI agents](https://docs.expo.dev/skills.md) - [Using Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Expo](https://docs.expo.dev/mcp.md) - [Documentation for AI agents and LLMs](https://docs.expo.dev/llms.md) ## Develop - [Overview](https://docs.expo.dev/develop/overview.md): How to develop your app.
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Kargo
Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.
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Project mention: I shipped my first npm package with AI — and it's already in production | dev.to | 2026-07-01
At work (sima-land) we lean on react-hook-form everywhere. It's the backbone of how we handle forms across projects. The date picker we were using — react-datepicker — kept getting in the way of that. Two things drove us up the wall:
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reactjs-interview-questions
List of top 500 ReactJS Interview Questions & Answers....Coding exercise questions are coming soon!!
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Mattermost
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
The amazing thing is that there is almost always an open-source alternative that is 10x better in many ways, in the case of slack https://mattermost.com/
I'm looking forward for AI to make it very easy to deploy your own tools and walk away from all this SAAS.
slack, jira, notion, even google suite
AI makes the cost of software development much lower, which means you can have a very good alternative that you can self host.
I'm thinking of companies that has 1000+ employees that pay millions annually in SaaS subscriptions.
SaaS is a tax on b2c business that will be reduced.
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TypeORM
TypeScript & JavaScript ORM for Node.js — supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle, and more.
TypeORM issue #9806 — "Auto Retry options on error in transactions (e.g. Deadlock)" — has been open since February 2023. Thirty 👍, six comments, no implementation. Meanwhile typeorm-transactional, at 188,000 downloads a week, ships @Transactional() with isolation levels and seven propagation modes and no retry at all.
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Project mention: GraphQL vs REST: 18 Claims Fact-Checked with Primary Sources (2026) | dev.to | 2026-04-17
Historically, measurements around 40–45 KB gzipped were reasonable for older Apollo Client bundles , but recent v4.x releases have reduced bundle size and made features more modular. Regardless, that is not a cost of GraphQL itself. The same concern exists for feature‑rich REST clients like SWR or TanStack Query . It is a misleading comparison because both REST and GraphQL can be implemented with nothing more than fetch(). Therefore, the theoretical baseline for both styles is 0 KB.
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karakeep
A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search
The good news: self-hosting a private bookmark manager is no longer painful. Tools like linkding, Shiori, Wallabag, Linkwarden, Karakeep, and Anansi give you a browser-friendly, searchable library of the references you care about - hosted locally or in infrastructure you control. No subscriptions. No tracking. No vendor lock-in.
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Zulip
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Project mention: Resolving Bug #24040 in Zulip: Unlocking the UI During Network Failures | dev.to | 2026-08-11Fix issue 24040: Hide compose spinner on failed message send #39922
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React Navigation — the bottom tab navigator the host shell is built on
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Happy Coder
Mobile and Web client for Claude Code. Spawn and control multiple Claude Codes in parallel. Happy Coder runs on your hardware. Works seamlessly with your existing tools and workflow. Secure with end-to-end encryption. Hands-free control with voice agent - not just dictation.
Project mention: Happy — The Open-Source App That Puts Claude Code in Your Pocket | dev.to | 2026-04-15Code on GitHub. Live app at happy.engineering. More posts at radarlog.kr.
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RxDB
The local-first database that runs on every JS runtime and replicates with your existing backend - no vendor, no lock-in - https://rxdb.info/
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Project mention: React Navigation vs. Expo Router: What's the best choice in 2026? | dev.to | 2026-09-03
React Navigation supports web out of the box. It has built-in support for browser URLs, history, accessible links etc. The official navigators work on web through React Native for Web, so the same codebase can run on Android, iOS, and web without any changes.
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NativeBase
Mobile-first, accessible components for React Native & Web to build consistent UI across Android, iOS and Web.
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ignite
Infinite Red's battle-tested React Native project boilerplate, along with a CLI, component/model generators, and more! 9 years of continuous development and counting.
Project mention: Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-13 -
SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source React Native projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | react-native | 126,510 |
| 2 | storybook | 91,024 |
| 3 | awesome-react | 74,510 |
| 4 | Appwrite | 57,296 |
| 5 | Joplin | 56,323 |
| 6 | expo | 52,069 |
| 7 | open-source-ios-apps | 51,984 |
| 8 | react-hook-form | 44,850 |
| 9 | reactjs-interview-questions | 44,801 |
| 10 | Mattermost | 38,996 |
| 11 | taro | 37,666 |
| 12 | TypeORM | 36,647 |
| 13 | awesome-react-native | 35,696 |
| 14 | SWR | 32,474 |
| 15 | karakeep | 28,842 |
| 16 | react-native-elements | 25,859 |
| 17 | Zulip | 25,855 |
| 18 | react-navigation | 24,504 |
| 19 | Happy Coder | 23,655 |
| 20 | RxDB | 23,372 |
| 21 | react-native-web | 22,140 |
| 22 | NativeBase | 20,379 |
| 23 | ignite | 19,938 |
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