I maintain the React Native libraries your app probably already depends on.
| Library | Downloads / mo |
|---|---|
| react-native-gifted-chat The default chat UI of the React Native ecosystem |
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| react-native-zoom-reanimated Apple Photos-style pinch, pan and double-tap zoom at 120fps |
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| react-native-background-downloader Downloads and uploads that survive backgrounding and termination |
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| react-native-action-cable Rails ActionCable channels over WebSocket |
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| react-native-chat Streaming AI messages, reactions, replies, Web. Drop-in Gifted Chat successor |
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| react-native-cloud-sync iCloud KV, CloudKit, iCloud Drive and Google Drive behind one API |
Gifted Chat went 14 months without a release. 150,000 people a month installed it anyway. I shipped the next one, then 25 more: 404 commits, backlog down from 154 issues to 3, downloads 168K β 444K a month.
Every React Native, Expo, Reanimated or Gradle release can break native code. Someone ports it before your build fails. That ships nothing for me, and keeps your app building on Monday.
Sponsors get faster issue turnaround, same-week support for new RN and Expo releases, and real docs. Companies also get logo placement, prioritized PR review and a heads-up before breaking changes land.
Current goal: 10 sponsors = one guaranteed maintenance day every month.
Everything stays MIT / Apache 2.0 and free, forever.




