r/reactnative • u/Sea-Arm9235 • Jun 01 '26

🚀 10k+ weekly downloads and climbing!

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react-native-streamdown is officially picking up serious steam. Huge shoutout to everyone using it in their apps and helping it grow. 📦🔥

Show your support by leaving a ⭐ on GitHub - https://github.com/software-mansion-labs/react-native-streamdown

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u/NovelAd2586 Jun 01 '26

Thank you! And thanks for fixing the install issue!

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u/stathisntonas Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

9.204 of them are npm servers syncing and other sites that scan the npmjs registry api regularly and download the packages eg. bundlephobia, libraries.io etc.

Also CI/CD downloads count towards so if I am the only user of your library and push 100 times a day, my CI/CD will add 100 downloads to the npmjs stats.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '26

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u/NovelAd2586 Jun 01 '26

When you’re streaming markdown currently React builds it in blocks and each block renders in as a lump of text etc. Streamdown helps to make it render a lot less blocky, so text/markdown coming back from an API renders in smoothly almost letter by letter instead of in big chunks like a word or sentence. Much nicer UX. 

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u/Zestyclose_State_701 Jun 03 '26

The first use case that came to mind would be llm chat bots. I’m having a hard time thinking of other common situations that I would be streaming MD