From Chain React 2024, the React Native panel hosted by Jamon Holmgren: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiyYKwXtftc&list=PLFHvL21g9bk0XOO9XK6d6S9w1jBU6Dz_U
- Amazon - Chris Traganos - Leading Developer Evangelism for Alexa, Apps, and Games at Amazon
Amazon main shopping app, Amazon Music, Amazon Photos, Kindle e-ink, and many more
We're working with Eli to update the showcase for React Native...the question was like, how many different projects did Amazon use React Native? So I started first going through our code repos and then I started talking to some different teams...I realized independently all these different consumer product lines across the company have been using React Native for years. First off, you obviously have the shopping app. Like, there's aspects of the shopping app that are native and there's many, many views inside the shopping app that are fully React native. Then we saw some interesting use cases like Amazon Music, Amazon Photos, like those experiences across iOS and Android are React Native. But then you start walking into some of the wild uses of React Native. So, Kindle, if you use Kindle, how many have the e-ink device? So like that's an implementation of React Native straight on top of C. And so the more that I dug in my mind was blown ... here we are thinking...we're really in App Store and devices, we're starting to ramp up into React Native because of demand, and you're like ... no, no, this has been since 2017, 2016!
- Microsoft (pronounced "KEY-ruh") Chiara Mooney, React Native Software Engineer from Microsoft
I know in the talk earlier today we had Chivan and Nikolai and they were talking about office's usage of react native and so that was really one of the original ways that we saw Microsoft incorporating the react native platform into our products um and so there's lots of features lit up in there like the co-pilot stuff or um the show Changes bar within Excel and you can list other examples that's definitely a really key offering um because they have an interest in crossplatform support um what was also interesting as we kind of continued to work in the react native for Windows space is that we had internal teams reach out who only have an interest in Windows support they aren't a cross-platform product and so we've now seen examples within like the windows OS itself um such as like the start menus like recommended section as one example of a team who just was really interested in the developer experience of react native um and being able to use JavaScript and so we've seen kind of a wide variety at the company some crossplatform some windows only yeah that I think that's one of the more interesting things about uh react native and I've seen this at more than just like Microsoft um where react native isn't just chosen for its cross-platform features which obviously is kind of like the killer feature but it's increasingly being chosen for its DX for its developer experience
- More Microsoft data:
https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/resources-showcase
- Xbox app on Windows
- Microsoft Store on Xbox
- MS Word (macOS & Windows)
- MS Excel (macOS & Windows)
- MS Powerpoint (macOS & Windows)
- Meta
- Facebook main app (many different experiences, including Marketplace) -- what RN was originally built for, brownfield integrations
- Meta Horizon (fully RN app) https://www.meta.com/blog/horizon-mobile-app/
- Meta Spatial Editor (RN desktop) https://engineering.fb.com/2024/10/02/android/react-at-meta-connect-2024/
- Facebook Messenger desktop (Windows & macOS) https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxibTcp-7CMJkNqPNHnYONu2eVCKe3VYET
Eli White told me that there are many more developers working on React Native than developers working on React at Meta.
- Walmart
Walmart is advertising many React Native jobs
Google walmart "react native" engineer and there are many.
They seem to use it primarily for internal apps, like their Global Integrated Fulfillment app.
- Evan Bacon's list: https://evanbacon.dev/blog/expo-apps
- Infinite Red's list: https://infinite.red/top-react-native-apps
- Evan's tweets about top categories: https://x.com/search?q=from%3A%40baconbrix%20top%20React%20Native&src=typed_query&f=live