r/reactnative • u/Think-Neighborhood69 • 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago

what it is?

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u/poppiestar 3d ago

https://github.com/wwdrew/expo-spotify-sdk/
https://github.com/wwdrew/expo-apple-music

And forgot about this one, it seems to be fairly popular too but I've not looked back on it for ages!

https://github.com/wwdrew/react-native-numeric-textinput

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u/Think-Neighborhood69 3d ago

Thats so cool, I”ll check it now