Bringing React Native to the next billion devices

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Argues React Native already touches a billion devices and a Windows 7/8 port adds 400 million more, shows teams share 80% of JavaScript code today and proposes sharing 30–80% of native code via net standard, shared projects and cross-platform Facebook C++ libraries. Demonstrates concrete fixes (async storage promise rejection, yoga node memory leaks), explains packaging options (VC packages, CMake, .NET libraries) and gives a reproducible layout for out‑of‑tree platforms to reduce fragmentation and speed bug fixes.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker background
2. 4:16Bringing React Native to Windows
3. 11:46Learn once write anywhere
4. 14:39Sharing JavaScript code across platforms
5. 18:18The sharing gap and native code issues
6. 21:34Sharing 30% of native code
7. 26:13Facebook’s C++ and shared projects
8. 31:10Net Standard libraries for cross-platform
9. 36:50Dependency inversion and UI separation
10. 39:57Summary and future of React Native

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