Show HN: React Native Boost – swaps RN's Text/View wrappers for native ones

Category: devtools

Tags: react-native, babel-plugin, performance

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

React Native Boost is a Babel plugin that automatically replaces standard React Native components with native counterparts via static analysis to improve performance. It offers safe, zero-overhead optimizations for both vanilla RN and Expo apps, with benchmarks and documentation provided.

Target audience: mobile developers

Repository: https://github.com/kuatsu/react-native-boost · TypeScript · MIT · 471 stars

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