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The best React Native for Web alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to React Native for Web, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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React Native for Web

Runs React Native UI components in the browser, using React DOM.

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    Tamagui

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.3k

    A TypeScript library for building React and React Native UIs that share styling and code.

    Best for: Teams building the same app for web and native with React; Developers who want shared styling across React Native and react-native-web

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    UI Kitten

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.7k

    React Native UI component library with a built-in light/dark theme system, for iOS, Android and web.

    Best for: React Native developers who want a complete set of standard UI controls; Teams that need light and dark themes or custom brand colours

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    styled-components

    Open source · MIT · ★ 41.1k

    A library for styling React components with CSS written inside your JavaScript.

    Best for: React developers who prefer writing styles alongside components in JavaScript; Teams building apps that use server-side rendering or React Server Components

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    Emotion

    Open source · MIT · ★ 18k

    A JavaScript library for writing CSS styles inside your code, mainly for React apps.

    Best for: React developers who want styles colocated with components; Teams that want to combine and reuse style objects in JavaScript

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    Linaria

    Open source · MIT · ★ 12.4k

    A CSS-in-JS library that extracts styles to plain CSS files at build time, so no styling code runs in the brow

    Best for: React or other JavaScript teams who want CSS-in-JS without a runtime styling cost; Projects that already use a supported bundler and can add a build-time plugin

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    React Native Elements

    Open source · MIT · ★ 25.9k

    A library of ready-made UI components for building React Native apps on iOS, Android and web.

    Best for: React Native developers who want ready-made UI components; Teams sharing one codebase across mobile and React web apps

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    NativeBase

    Open source · MIT · ★ 20.4k

    Accessible React Native and web UI component library; now in maintenance mode, succeeded by gluestack-ui.

    Best for: Teams maintaining an existing app already built on NativeBase; Developers who need to keep an existing NativeBase v3 codebase running

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    react-content-loader

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14k

    A React component that draws grey placeholder shapes while content loads.

    Best for: React developers who want loading placeholders for cards, lists, or profiles; Teams that want a small dependency for skeleton screens on the web

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to React Native for Web. We don't take payment for placement.