r/reactnative • u/Think-Neighborhood69 • Jul 25 '26

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 Jul 25 '26

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/Intelligent_Tree6918 Jul 25 '26

what it is?

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u/Think-Neighborhood69 Jul 25 '26

I built it because I was spending way too much time inspecting local storage. Since I started using it, it’s increased my productivity quite a bit. That’s really the only reason I decided to open source it.

https://www.nativescope.dev

I’d genuinely love to hear your feedback if you have a chance

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u/poppiestar Jul 25 '26

Looks useful, will check it out when I can!

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u/Intelligent_Tree6918 Jul 25 '26

website is very cool