Open Source Roadmap
This year, the React Native team has focused on a large scale re-architecture of React Native. As Sophie mentioned in her State of React Native post, we've sketched out a plan to better support the thriving population of React Native users and collaborators outside of Facebook. It's now time to share more details about what we've been working on. Before I do so, I'd like to lay out our long-term vision for React Native in open source.
Our vision for React Native is...
- A healthy GitHub repository. Issues and pull requests get handled within a reasonable period of time.
- Increased test coverage.
- Commits that sync out from the Facebook code repository should not break open source tests.
- A higher scale of meaningful community contributions.
- Stable APIs, making it easier to interface with open source dependencies.
- Facebook uses the same public API as open source
- React Native releases that follow semantic versioning.
- A vibrant eco-system. High quality ViewManagers, native modules, and multiple platform support maintained by the community.
- Excellent documentation. Focus on helping users create high quality experiences, and up-to-date API reference docs.
We have identified the following focus areas to help us achieve this vision.
✂️ Lean Core
Our goal is to reduce the surface area of React Native by removing non-core and unused components. We'll transfer non-core components to the community to allow it to move faster. The reduced surface area will make it easier to manage contributions to React Native.
WebView
is an example of a component that we transferred to the community. We are working on a workflow that will allow internal teams to continue using these components after we remove them from the repository. We have identified dozens more components that we'll give ownership of to the community.