React Native Desktop

In plain words

React Native Desktop is a framework for building macOS desktop applications using React Native, the popular JavaScript-based UI library. It enables developers to write desktop apps with web technologies rather than native languages. The tool is designed for software developers who want to create Mac applications using familiar React patterns and JavaScript, bringing web development practices to desktop software development.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

[deprecated in favor of https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/] React Native for macOS is an experimental fork for writing desktop apps using Cocoa - ptmt/react-native-macos

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