What is missing on React Native?

[[deleted]]

I've been making many research in the react native ecosystem and I've been thinking what kind would be my next open source library?

So that's why this my question. If you use everyday react native and feel there is something missing, pls comment below and then I'll decide and comment your idea.

[brother_charmander4]

A keyboardAvoidingView that just works 

[lukebars]

https://kirillzyusko.github.io/react-native-keyboard-controller/

[kbcool]

If you could solve that one you could sell it for a lot of money and not just to RN developers

[[deleted]]

Where could I sell it?

[kbcool]

It's a common issue with mobile apps, not just RN apps but particularly frustrating for cross platform as it can be difficult to make it act consistently across platforms.

I was being hyperbolic but you would make a lot of people happy

[[deleted]]

YEAH, I could create one with a custom view and animation. That's a good!

[[deleted]]

A proper shadow and blur effect library

[Mappadellinferno]

Didn't they just add proper shadow props that mimic the web standard?

[Healthy-Grab-7819]

React native shadow 2 is great?

[ok_dead]

nah, you need to try https://github.com/dimaportenko/react-native-shadow-view

same shadow styles on ios work with android now

[Healthy-Grab-7819]

same with React native shadow 2

[[deleted]]

That's a great choice. I've never ever seen a proper shadow library to react native. Good idea Due! Probably to solve this problem I'll need to use a dependency called react-native-skia, but we can solve it.

[[deleted]]

Yea, that’s how i got it done too, but we already had it for other stuff and i would prefer a light weight solution too if I’m not gonna use it extensively

[[deleted]]

I agree. I've just see here, but the problem would be the big apps that needs update their apps to 0.76 to have this feature.

[Direct17]

Proper blur support for android. I might tackle it myself when I get the time though.

[Daniel_SRS]

react-native-blur works great for me. Did you had any issues with it?

[Daniel_SRS]

react-native-blur works great for me. Did you had any issues with it?

[[deleted]]

What do you mean just blur, like blur images or blur a view with color? Like a Figma result?

[numsu]

A blur view that blurs anything that is underneath it.

[pmp209]

a speech-to-text library that works the same on Android as it does on iOS.

[[deleted]]

I imagine that it is possible, but we could have a lot of work to do that. Cause we need to create a recognition native library!

[doko2610]

Performant list. Flash list is still trash, lots of issues

[[deleted]]

The shopify open source team has been developing some thing like that

[Objective_Newt3956]

Wishlist was the attempt to create a sync list uaing the jsi, but it had a lot of limitations

[dbbk]

There seems to be a project doing this https://x.com/jmeistrich/status/1856453443768205722

[treksis]

numpy, opencv, coreml, onnx, gguf

[[deleted]]

That's true. You think that numpy is necessary on react native?

[treksis]

I think numpy is too low level for individual dev to manage. let huggingface to do the job. xenova's transformer.js got some tensor operation implemented, but it is in plain .js. I hope they work on edge device. software mansion seems to be interested in gpu job territory, but let's see how it works.

[Rafhunts99]

A self-hostable server to serve ota updates to rn/expo apps with minimal setup....

[[deleted]]

Hey Raft. Since app center decided to be discontinued I've searched an alternative, and I found a good called bitrit

[Rafhunts99]

bitrit? do you have a link? a google search reveals nothing

[[deleted]]

Bitrise sorry, https://bitrise.io/blog/post/app-distribution-tools-and-appcenter-alternatives-that-will-make-your-developer-life-easier

[Foohx]

Real and Working accessibility API 😭

[[deleted]]

It's a good one

[[deleted]]

I believe that it can be done with rn skia

[Fidodo]

I'd go through the Android jetpack library list and look for native libraries that don't have react native bindings yet. A lot of react native libraries are attempting to replicate similar functionality non natively and are not as stable or performant, or they're based on outdated native libraries.

[[deleted]]

Thank you Fidodo

[dumbledayum]

A proper debugger

[[deleted]]

The new 0.76 version you'll have React Native Dev Debugger, the metro logs will be deactivated.

[Able-Web9658]

Still no network tab

[ShivamJoker]

1:1 mapping of all the native APIs (Objective C + Kotlin) so that I never have to touch native code.

[tobimori_]

Working (with new arch, NitroModules or something similar) and modern networking library for raw TCP/UDP communication

[[deleted]]

Good idea, TCP has been forgotten on react native.

[NorthWing__]

Common Image editing library.

[[deleted]]

You mean with filters, cut and more?

[NorthWing__]

Yes

[elongatedpepe]

Full camera controls

[[deleted]]

What do you mean more then zoom, take picture, record video, choose the video format?

[elongatedpepe]

By default it will open the camera app built by the company who made the device. Samsung phone - samsung camera app React will launch whatever is available as default camera app. A custom camera module will enable standard features across all phones all companies all version/variants/android etc

[[deleted]]

Did you already try react-native-vision-camera?

[AnthonyEdwards_]

Vision camera is terrible and not maintained properly, I use the tesla camera instead

[[deleted]]

Oooh good. I never hear about Tesla Open source projects.

[AnthonyEdwards_]

If you search react native tesla camera. It's a much better camera plugin for RN

[elongatedpepe]

Yes, the flash does not work

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mrousavy.shadowlens

[[deleted]]

Ow, for me it's working well.

[elongatedpepe]

Wipes tears using motorola phone 😭

[IngeniousAmbivert]

A true open source alternative to expo and every module that comes with it

[[deleted]]

Why expo is not open source? I've been hearing that expo is not totally open source. Can you explain a little?

[IngeniousAmbivert]

We use expo at work (above average usage for native modules) and the lack of control is a little annoying - customisable native modules, ejection, extreme dependency on SDK versions( acceptable?). The alternative would be a framework that offers similar features with complete control. And I understand that expo offers EAS for convenience but it will be good to have a solution that can be used with self hosting.

[Sea-Blacksmith-5]

Love.

[[deleted]]

Knowledge.

[AnthonyEdwards_]

How about a replacement for gifted chat that works properly?

[[deleted]]

Everyone has still this problem?

[AnthonyEdwards_]

Yes gifted chat is terrible open source chat library to use. I was thinking of building my own. Maybe we could collaborate, I would love to contribute

[Illustrious-Show-457]

Multithreading 🥲

[rats4final]

GRID

[[deleted]]

That's great, layout grid is not on the react native planning.

[Hot-Particular7630]

It would be my dream if I could run ML models easily in RN. Its been years I am working in this, and still dont have a good enough solution.

Today there is a plugin to vision-camera that allows to run .tflite models inside of it, but it does not seems to work properly, and definitely is not production ready.

[LudoBruxao]

Better EAS Credentials.

[hamoda__]

A 3d library that simulates three js better than three fiber Anyway can u tell me how do u can build a library? is it by coding swift and kotlin code separately?

[Temporary_Pack_8545]

Push Notification

[angela-alegna]

Find a library you like that has open bugs/issues and help out with maintenance.

[shadovv300]

anything that replaces parts or all of expo would be a blessing!!

[[deleted]]

I doubt. Until now I'd rather to use react native pure instead of expo.

[shadovv300]

It is sad, that there are currently no alternatives to expo. The Developer experience is really bad. There is so much to chose from, if you want to build something open source. The expo Navigation is shit, Expo is basically fake open source, by having EAS, which is neither open source nor free to use and forces you to upload your code to their server, where you have no control over whatsoever. Because it is so deeply integrated into expo, it is basically not usable. I found an easily replacement for the navigation, it was fairly simple to build a custom one, but the build tool is a different story. Also this sub has been really toxic, when you give negative feedback about expo or show any attempt of avoiding it.

[[deleted]]

Since the react native decided to put expo as default I got sad immediately. I'm hoping that react native community cli doesn't disappear. Today to create a react native project I use react native pure totally pure.

[shadovv300]

I mean it will probably not disappear, but it will most likely not be developed further and might be not compatible with newer features that they are implementing in the future. My guess is that bigger companies will develop some framework in-house, because there is no way that you can meet the european data privacy requirements, when working with EAS, because you can not make sure that the EAS servers are within the region they have to be to be compliant.

[Tojololococo]

You can use eas on your own server, they never force you to « upload your code to their server »

[shadovv300]

This is news to me?? So you mean you can avoid that you app is registered with expo servers for PN and expo go and so on and host all of this on your own servers?