As someone who manages a team at a large corp that uses react native and ships a successful project things have definitely changed. It feels like Facebook has lost interest.
- the android debugger has been broken for months (it opens to the wrong url, delta patches also broke source maps). No one at Facebook cares. Do they not use the debugger?
- pull requests have stopped being merged. We have FIVE outstanding pull requests fixing bugs as old as ones ignored by Facebook from 2016. No one will reply or merge them anymore. We've been told to just create a fork on GitHub for our project. Apparently that's what every serious RN user does because Facebook doesn't really care about it anymore.
- they have a bot who auto closes bugs somewhat randomly. For example an old bug that Facebook ignored with hundreds of comments gets closed for "inactivity", but it's not active because folks all complained and now they're just waiting for someone to fix it.
So it all combines to a situation where the platform is buggy, but you can't get fixes merged, and filing bugs is largely a waste of time since all it gets is auto replies from the bot and "me too" responses from others.
We really like RN, it helped us ship fast at first, but Facebook absolutely seems to have lost interest in it and in having a community around it.
- the android debugger has been broken for months (it opens to the wrong url, delta patches also broke source maps). No one at Facebook cares. Do they not use the debugger?
- pull requests have stopped being merged. We have FIVE outstanding pull requests fixing bugs as old as ones ignored by Facebook from 2016. No one will reply or merge them anymore. We've been told to just create a fork on GitHub for our project. Apparently that's what every serious RN user does because Facebook doesn't really care about it anymore.
- they have a bot who auto closes bugs somewhat randomly. For example an old bug that Facebook ignored with hundreds of comments gets closed for "inactivity", but it's not active because folks all complained and now they're just waiting for someone to fix it.
So it all combines to a situation where the platform is buggy, but you can't get fixes merged, and filing bugs is largely a waste of time since all it gets is auto replies from the bot and "me too" responses from others.
We really like RN, it helped us ship fast at first, but Facebook absolutely seems to have lost interest in it and in having a community around it.