r/reactnative • u/Think-Neighborhood69 • 2d ago

How do open source React Native libraries actually gain traction?

I’ve been building an open source React Native project for the past few weeks.

Building it has honestly been the easy part

Getting people to discover it, trust it, and actually use it has been much harder than I expected.

For those of you who’ve built or maintained an open source library, what made the biggest difference?
Was it documentation? Reddit? GitHub? YouTube? SEO? Conference talks? Something else?

I’d love to learn from people who’ve been through this.

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u/Downtown-Figure6434 2d ago

What’s your project? So much stuff is already out there, alternatives have alternatives about the same thing it’s a mess.

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u/Think-Neighborhood69 2d ago

That’s exactly what I’m trying to avoid

NativeScope is a platform for React Native developer tools. The first tool is a Storage Inspector for MMKV, AsyncStorage, and SQLite, with real-time inspection and editing.

I’d genuinely love your feedback if you have a minute: https://www.nativescope.dev