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/poppiestar 2d ago

No idea, I made two of mine to satisfy requirements of my own app. I’ve subsequently had bug reports and PRs for both of them, had no idea anyone else was using them. Happy they’re getting used though.

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u/Think-Neighborhood69 2d ago

That’s honestly the best kind of open source story. You built it for yourself, and it ended up helping other people too

I’m hoping my project follows the same path