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badlogic on March 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: React Native is now open source

Are you sure they compile to native? IIUC they use JavaScriptCore on iOS, which currently doesn't JIT. Probably good enough to drive UI and you can implement performance hungry stuff in native code.

tootie on March 27, 2015 [–]

Not sure, but it's native UI at least. The demos they showed prior to release were far more responsive than any WebView based solution.

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