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Why we built gluestack-ui
gluestack-ui v1.0 launched a month back and crossed 1000+ stars on GitHub. Here's why we built it and how it compares to its predecessor, NativeBase.
Road Ahead with gluestack-ui: The Successor of NativeBase
NativeBase is being discontinued in favor of gluestack-ui, a complete rebuild addressing performance, maintainability, and bundle size. This post explains the rationale, what gluestack-ui offers, and what it means for existing users.
The future of NativeBase: March 2023
An update on the state of NativeBase v3, its strengths and performance challenges, and the plan to split the library into dank.style and the new gluestack-ui components.
The Present and Future of NativeBase
A look at how NativeBase evolved through its versions, where it stands today with growing adoption, and the roadmap toward spec-based design systems and true write-once-deploy-everywhere development.
NativeBase | September Scoop
September highlights from the NativeBase team, including conference talks at React India and Devfest Bangalore, a performance-focused 3.5.0 release in progress, and new open-source contributors.
NativeBase | July Scoop
July highlights from NativeBase, including the React India conference announcement, the alpha release of the babel-plugin performance fix, the first Design System meetup, and new tutorials and blogs.
NativeBase | June Scoop
June recap from NativeBase covering the HackWithNativeBase hackathon, appearances at App.js Conference, React Summit, and React Day Bangalore, plus the launch of the Component of the Week video series.
NativeBase | May Scoop
A productive May for NativeBase: HackWithNativeBase goes live, v3.4.6 ships with fixes, the community crosses 4,000+ Twitter followers, and Discord support gets revamped.
Announcing HackWithNativeBase
HackWithNativeBase is a hackathon for React and React Native developers to build cross-platform apps from a single codebase, with a grand prize pool and a Hack Day in Bengaluru.
NativeBase | April Scoop
April highlights from NativeBase: the v3.4 release with updated Figma kit, new community projects on Made with NativeBase, the Startup+ Design Trial Kit, and the return of in-person meetups.
NativeBase | March Scoop
March news from NativeBase: a sneak peek at the DSX design system creator, the Roofinder flatmate project, Startup+ admin and e-commerce guides, and a Raycast extension for browsing docs by version.
NativeBase | February Scoop
February recap from NativeBase: new and improved docs rebuilt with NativeBase, the launch of Made With NativeBase, a conference talk on building a template engine, the roadmap, and the v3.3.6 release.
NativeBase | January Scoop
January highlights from NativeBase: the Design Kit launch, the first design meetup at GeekyAnts, real-time Notion-powered blog updates, a Twitter Spaces clone webinar, clone experiments, and the v3.3.4 release.
Announcing NativeBase
Announcing NativeBase 3.0, a utility-first, themable, and accessible component library for building universal React and React Native apps across web and mobile.