React Native Elements (source: Nader Dabit, via GitHub) "While there is some basic styling coming out of the box, everything is completely configurable," he said. "The idea with React Native Elements ...

He told me that the success of React Native as an open-source project took him by surprise. For the company itself, though, deciding to go the open-source route wasn’t ever really in question.

It took the team of developers in New York just five months to develop the app—roughly half the time it would have taken had they not used React Native. React Native was created by Facebook to ...