This week at the React.js Conf 2015, Facebook presented React Native. A revolutionary solution to build native mobile apps using JavaScript. Sound familiar? Let's go over some quotes from the keynotes. Introducing React Native We've tried in the past to just build web-apps that we could wrap in thin native wrappers, but it doesn't work. People have tried to clone this on the web, but no one gets even close. Anytime somebody tries to reimplement a native widget using HTML, CSS and JavaScript it always feels like shit.Tom Occhino Couldn't agree more. Everything on screen was native. No HTML. No Browser. No WebViews. Completely powered by JavaScript.Tom Occhino Get used to repeating that over and over again.. like we do. There are other frameworks that exist today that script native API's in JavaScript. But Dropping frames in the UI because we're waiting on JS to do some work like Garbage Collecting. By putting the JavaScript in a background thread we can make it so that all of your
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