VisiCalc's legendary co-inventor argues that most developers should write mobile JavaScript apps rather than build apps in native code.

Facebook already uses React Native to build some of its main apps: Facebook Groups, for example, uses React Native to render many of its views from React’s Javascript into native code.

A developer compares hybrid and JavaScript-native mobile app development tools with iOS and Android native dev tools in this podcast.

The JavaScript code that actually runs in the app is handled by Chakra. To support development of React Native apps, Microsoft has released the React Native extension for Visual Studio Code.

The highly anticipated React Native project from Facebook has been officially open sourced and released, possibly heralding a sea wave change in mobile UI app development practices.

NativeScript lets developers code with familiar JavaScript, TypeScript, markup, and CSS APIs, and it interprets the code into native user interfaces on both iOS and Android.

Facebook built the React JavaScript library so its engineering team could build interfaces for iOS, Android, and web with the same code. Now it’s giving that development super power to everyone ...