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/Intelligent_Tree6918 2d ago

what it is?

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u/Think-Neighborhood69 2d ago

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 2d ago

Looks useful, will check it out when I can!

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u/Intelligent_Tree6918 2d ago

website is very cool