Once hailed as a breakthrough in mobile development, Facebook’s React Native framework is stumbling, with users reassessing their commitment to the technology and Facebook looking to overhaul it.

Microsoft’s TypeScript language is approaching its 2.2 release with an emphasis on support for React Native, Facebook’s JavaScript framework for building native mobile apps. The upgrade has moved to a ...

After reaching a React Native performance impasse while building internal apps, Facebook engineers identified the JavaScript engine as a primary bottleneck, so they created and open sourced their own ...

Facebook has released a new open source JavaScript engine, Hermes, to speed up start times for native Android apps built with Facebook's own React Native JavaScript framework. Facebook software ...