As already mentioned, the choice of a relevant technology for your business is a challenging one. There are a number of essential criteria that you must consider to determine if a given stack is right for you. One of the factors to include in the evaluation is a technology’s popularity and range of applications. Below, we’re presenting some examples of world-famous companies who are already leveraging React Native in their projects. Go through them and you will see how the framework has helped them attain different business goals. Remember that’s not to say that whatever worked for them, will work for you. Each company has its unique goals and challenges, with a specific skill set, resources, and capabilities. But having such household businesses in its portfolio makes a strong case for React Native. Go back to section WHEN TO USE REACT NATIVE? to find out what projects make the best match for RN.

1. Facebook – Where React Native Began It all started at Facebook when one of the company’s dev teams created React Native to expedite the development of the social media mobile app. The intention was to enable fast delivery of new features and downsize the resources needed to ship them. In the beginning, Fb developers created the iOS version of the app; shortly after, they followed with Android support. Since then, the king of social media has constantly invested in the optimization of the framework by releasing new updates. Apart from tapping into the business benefits, Facebook has recorded tangible efficiency and scheduling improvements, such as faster application startup.

2. Walmart – The Fortune 500 Leader Cannot Be Wrong With over 500M $ revenue last year, Walmart tops the Fortune 500 list of the biggest corporations in the world. One of the reasons behind the company’s massive success is that it always prioritizes customer experience. Walmart’s application is a perfect example of how the retailer makes life easier for its customers. The app allows users to browse products, check prices in-store, order shopping, or pay for their purchase via Walmart’s Pay system. Because of the multitude of features and their complexity, Walmart would normally have to maintain two enormous dev teams to keep the app going on all devices. Instead, they decided to take advantage of cross-platform development with React Native. This seems like a smart move. The staggering 95% of the Walmart’s codebase is shared between iOS and Android apps. The dev team is developing for both platforms in parallel, which reduces the costs of labor by half! As they say, ‘follow in the footsteps of giants.’ “Initial development, as well as the development of incremental features, is very quick and therefore you can satisfy your customers’ needs faster than your competition. As icing on the cake, applications written in React Native generally speaking have comparable or even potentially superior performance to those written as native applications.” Keertimaan Tenneti, Senior Engineering Manager @ WalmartLabs

3. Discovery VR – Virtual Reality on Steroids Discovery Chanel needs no introduction. The company’s mission is to allow people to explore the world in the comfort of their homes, and take them to places beyond their reach. Well-established as a documentary television channel, the company has decided to take the user experience to the next level with a VR set The set allows users to travel to the most distant parts of our planet. Thanks to the accompanying application, the viewers can immerse in a wide variety of landscapes and explore various activities, such as hiking, skiing or base jumping. To assure the flawless VR experience, Discovery has developed the entire User Interface in React Native. What’s more, thanks to the framework, the set can seamlessly integrate with external APIs, including Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or Google Cardboard. And the results are stunning!

4. Wix – 3x Faster Development for 80 Million Users Wix (GitHub: https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation) is a free website builder that allows everyone to create powerful websites with drag & drop, without any knowledge of HTML. To deliver the web building and hosting capabilities on mobile to its 80 million users, Wix resolved to use React Native. This turned out to be the right move. Thanks to React Native, the Wix dev team managed to go from zero to stores in six months with the speed of development 300% faster than usual. In the words of Tal Kol, Head of Mobile Engineering in Wix: “React Native has a lot of appeal as the stack of choice for modern mobile apps. The major advantage this framework offers is a dramatic increase in productivity. Simply put, you develop apps much faster — partly due to the fact you can finally share code between platforms.”

5. Bloomberg – Media Giant Transitions to React Native Bloomber is best-known as a media enterprise covering the economy and financial markets, but the company also provides software solutions for these industries. In their mission to support businesses worldwide with access to market data, stock & currency ratings, and finance news, Bloomberg created a mobile app. Because of the high-profile audience and the turbulent nature of the financial sector, the application had to deliver sophisticated personalization and speed. To address these requirements, Bloomberg chose React Native for the implementation. The company had to transition the entire team to React Native to rebuild consumer mobile application for iOS and Android. The timing was also of concern. However, the efforts paid off. Thanks to React Native, the application provides the users with a personalized, interactive experience, while offering advanced features such as live TV access and continual updates. More importantly, Bloomberg team managed to create the entire app from scratch in 5 months. Without the framework, this endeavor would have taken at least twice as long. “React Native is the best out there. Expect it to appear in other Bloomberg mobile apps in the future.” Gabriel Lew, Senior Software Engineer @ Bloomberg

There’s More! Tesla, Adidas GLITCH, Instagram, Skype, Baidu mobile, Whym translation app... there are many more companies that have recognized React Native’s advantages and deployed it in their projects to save time, streamline development and produce better results. You can check out more examples of successful RN applications in this blog post. Although RN doesn’t make sense in every single context, multiple examples of its use by the world’s most innovative businesses make a strong case for the framework.