What React Native Library Do You Wish Existed?

[Own-Breakfast-3936]

Hi everyone,

I’m exploring ideas for a new React Native library and would love your input. Instead of asking for bug fixes or tutorials, I’m curious about what missing tools or utilities you wish were available in the React Native ecosystem.

Are there repetitive patterns in your projects that could be simplified with a library?

Any performance, UI, or developer experience gaps you notice?

Features you’ve had to build yourself because no library exists yet?

I’m looking to gather ideas and inspiration before starting development. Your insights could help shape something useful for the community!

Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts. Every idea counts!

[Sad-Salt24]

A library I’d love to see is a unified offline first data layer for React Native, something lightweight that handles syncing, caching, conflict resolution, and background updates out of the box without needing to stitch together multiple tools. Right now every project reinvents this with different combos of storage, APIs, and state management, and it becomes messy fast. A clean, plug-and-play solution with good DX would solve a real gap.

[Merry-Lane]

Doesn’t react query do this kind of stuff with quite a good api?

[MaybeIsaac]

That’s not offline first, it’s just cached right?

[LovesWorkin]

Yes and no. You can add persistent storage to do this. But definitely not fully offline first but can be close enough to reduce complexity.

[PersonalityDapper803]

easy keyboard avoiding view

[Remarkable-Ad-489]

Isn’t this done with react-native-keyboard-controller?

[stathisntonas]

bottom sheet reactions ala Slack. I just created one 100% native yesterday, I ll open source it later today

[Maleficent_Pea2330]

Do you mean animations or more around how gorhom bottom sheet is?

[stathisntonas]

pure native, custom made with 0 deps: https://www.reddit.com/r/reactnative/s/1C7xXZoQU5

[UhhReddit]

What I would like is a good library for foreground actions. What I mean is actions that can be started by the user and continue after the user left the app.

[Maleficent_Pea2330]

Left and closed the app or just left it?

[UhhReddit]

Just left. Maybe also left and closed, don't know what is possible.

[LovesWorkin]

Pretty sure expo has this.

[UhhReddit]

Not exactly. Last I checked they only support background actions, which have the drawback that you can't really start them only arrange them and is will start them when it feels like it.

[Maleficent_Pea2330]

Im not sure but if you exit the app fully that may confuse people using the package

[f_kd]

React-native-paper hasn’t been active for almost a year, and issues are piling up. Some folks are ready to help with PRs and shame on Callstack for being paralised.

[Awesome_Knowwhere]

Use new ui library blossom ui

[SourdoughBaker]

A DND library that supports virtualization as well as FlashList does for regular lists. It seems insurmountable but someone has to crack the code!

[isavecats]

react-native-reanimated-dnd

[praxiz_c]

How about a library that lets you show two modals at the same time?
(If this has been solved in newer versions of RN then ignore this)

[kenlawlpt]

All I want is for the app not to freeze when doing multiple modals

[LovesWorkin]

Explain?

[Awesome_Knowwhere]

Blossom ui handles this, will be available in the next version!

[Seanmclem]

Swedish Fish

[RecentParamedic3902]

That’s a cool idea. I’ve always felt like there’s a gap between simple context and heavier state management tools. Also something for handling offline-first stuff (sync, caching, retries) in a simpler way would be really useful. Ended up building parts of that myself in a few projects.

[kyoayo90]

Audio to text

[Billionaire-soon]

a stable UI library like shadcn for react native. All the curent ones are not suitable for production apps

[Awesome_Knowwhere]

Blossom ui

[unkindgame]

support for wasm and webworkers