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A framework for building native Windows apps with React.

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Merged PRs (30d): 33

Dominant language: C++
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Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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724 open issues indexed

Address V8/NAPI feedback after backport Open

enhancement PR Follow-up Workstream: Developer Experience

microsoft/react-native-windows#8484 · 2 assignees · Opened Aug 26, 2021
`AssertSz` doesn't actually do anything Open

Code Cleanup enhancement Only Affects Internal Development Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8481 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2021
Don't use non-Unicode functions to initialize V8 runtime holders Open

Area: JavaScript Engine enhancement PR Follow-up Workstream: Developer Experience

microsoft/react-native-windows#8457 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 22, 2021
Switch from denylist to allowlist for headers that should be appended with validation in NetworkingModule Open

Area: Networking enhancement Partner: Facebook PR Follow-up Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8398 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 9, 2021
Hermes profiler needs more work to function in win32 unpackaged apps Open

Area: JavaScript Engine enhancement PR Follow-up Workstream: Developer Experience

microsoft/react-native-windows#8397 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 9, 2021
Xaml islands setup: Devtools element inspector doesn't do anything Open

Area: Developer Experience Area: Developer Menu Area: Islands bug Workstream: Developer Experience

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8328 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 28, 2021
How Func<T,TResult> works in a ReactMethod? Open

Area: Native Modules enhancement Needs: Dev Design Workstream: Module Support

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8321 · 2 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jul 26, 2021
folly::toJson: JSON object value was a NaN or INF Open

Area: Layout bug Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8318 · 14 comments · Opened Jul 25, 2021
Don't attempt to publish build artifacts in PR if they do not exist Open

Area: Build Infrastructure enhancement Only Affects Internal Development Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8305 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 22, 2021
View managers libraries should be able to autolink into an app's pch.h Open

Area: Autolinking Developer First Experience enhancement Workstream: Module Support

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8256 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2021
Dispatching an event with arg value 0 wrongly becomes {} Open

Area: Native Modules bug Workstream: Module Support

microsoft/react-native-windows#8211 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 11, 2021
Explore using PackageReference to Split NuGet Packages by Build Configuration Open

Area: Developer Experience Area: Performance enhancement PackageReference Workstream: New Arch NuGet Refactor

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8196 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 8, 2021
Upstream VirtualizedList Changes Open

Area: FlatList Deforking enhancement Upstream Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8120 · Opened Jun 28, 2021
MSBuild scanning makes it difficult to develop and test a module's example Open

Area: Developer Experience question Workstream: Module Support

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8104 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2021
Reduce building react-native-windows memory and disk space requirements Open

Area: Developer Experience Developer First Experience enhancement External Developer Tooling Workstream: Developer Experience

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8103 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 24, 2021
Improve publish pipeline and nuget packing Open

Area: Build Infrastructure enhancement Workstream: New Arch NuGet Refactor

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8088 · Opened Jun 22, 2021
Provide Windows-specific information in the NewAppScreen template app component Open

Developer First Experience enhancement Workstream: Developer Experience

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8066 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 18, 2021
Autolinking should bail if there are two projects with the same name Open

Area: Autolinking Area: Developer Experience bug Workstream: Module Support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8052 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 17, 2021
Fix and reenable Facebook's MapBuffer code Open

Area: Tests Deforking Engineering Improvement Candidate enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#8000 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2021
Address the PR #7984 feedback Open

enhancement PR Follow-up Workstream: Developer Experience

microsoft/react-native-windows#7999 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 10, 2021
Enable Fabric unit tests Open

Area: Fabric Area: Tests enhancement New Architecture Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7962 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 4, 2021
Auto linked projects should be added under a folder in VS Open

Area: Autolinking Area: Developer Experience enhancement Workstream: New Arch NuGet Refactor

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7959 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 4, 2021
AV in JsiAbiRuntime::RethrowJsiError() when using V8 Open

bug Partner: Microsoft Workstream: Developer Experience

microsoft/react-native-windows#7939 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 3, 2021
Add UIA Verification of Successful New App Launch to Init Tests Open

Area: Tests enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7936 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 3, 2021
Native modules could be built as vcxitems Open

enhancement Needs: Dev Design Workstream: New Arch NuGet Refactor

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7894 · 4 comments · Opened May 29, 2021
Do not call other destructor in JSValue move constructor Open

Area: Native Modules enhancement PR Follow-up Workstream: Module Support

microsoft/react-native-windows#7873 · 1 assignee · Opened May 27, 2021
Commit changes when failing VS AutoLinkCheck Open

Area: Build Infrastructure Area: Developer Experience enhancement Workstream: Module Support

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7809 · 2 comments · Opened May 20, 2021
Failing InteropCSModuleTests Against X64 Hermes Release Open

Area: JavaScript Engine Area: Tests bug Workstream: Component Parity

microsoft/react-native-windows#7808 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 20, 2021
Automatically Support TypeScript Entry Files When Bundling in Release Build Open

Area: Build Infrastructure enhancement Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7807 · 2 comments · Opened May 20, 2021
Make `create-github-releases` script testable Open

Area: Tests enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7805 · Opened May 20, 2021
Add some mechanism to determine if RNW app is running on xbox console or windows pc Open

Area: PlatformConstants enhancement Partner: Stream Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7731 · 2 comments · Opened May 5, 2021
Increase Clang Warning Level in OSS RN Build Logic Open

Area: Build Infrastructure enhancement External Scenario: Clang Upstream Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7688 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 28, 2021
Add Thread Affinity Tests Open

Area: Native Modules Area: Tests enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7646 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 26, 2021
Attempt node_modules resolution in react-native-platform-override before Git resolution Open

enhancement Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7617 · Opened Apr 21, 2021
DataDetector Support for <Text> or <TextInput> Components? Open

API: Completion Area: Text Area: TextInput enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

microsoft/react-native-windows#7613 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 20, 2021
Can't nest layouts Open

Area: Layout Deliverable enhancement Needs: Dev Design Partner: Microsoft Recommend: Not Planned

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7601 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2021
Proposal: TextInput onPaste event Open

enhancement Needs: Dev Design Partner: Facebook Upstream Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7574 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 13, 2021
Extend AccessibilityInfo.sendAccessibilityEvent to support click events Open

API: Completion enhancement Integration Follow-up Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7571 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 12, 2021
FlatList.onViewableItemsChanged callback broken Open

Area: FlatList bug Integration Follow-up Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7557 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2021
Document IReactContext behavior for unloaded React instance Open

Documentation: New or changed API enhancement PR Follow-up Workstream: Developer Experience

microsoft/react-native-windows#7506 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 1, 2021
Avoid comment duplication with a macro in JsiAbi.idl Open

Area: JSI Code Cleanup enhancement PR Follow-up Workstream: Developer Experience

microsoft/react-native-windows#7505 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 1, 2021
Add CLI generateWindows unit tests Open

Area: CLI Area: Tests enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7469 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 24, 2021
Improve config schema validation Open

Area: CLI enhancement PR Follow-up Workstream: Developer Experience

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7439 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 21, 2021
Automatic "prerelease" -> "patch" change type in released branches Open

Area: Infrastructure enhancement Only Affects Internal Development Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7380 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 15, 2021
Add WriteJSI functionality for marshalling JSValues to JS Open

Area: JSI enhancement Workstream: Developer Experience

microsoft/react-native-windows#7375 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 14, 2021
When is it safe to access JsiRuntime (need clear error and better documentation) Open

Area: Developer Experience Area: JSI Documentation enhancement Workstream: Developer Experience

microsoft/react-native-windows#7374 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 13, 2021
JsiValueRef are not debuggable Open

Area: Developer Experience Area: JSI enhancement Workstream: Developer Experience

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7372 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 13, 2021
Dependabot for stable release branches Open

Area: Infrastructure enhancement Needs: Dev Design Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7369 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 13, 2021
Build a min/gallery electron app to compare/baseline against RNW Open

Area: Performance enhancement Intern project ideas Workstream: Performance

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7358 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 11, 2021
Try using ASan (C++ memory bug detector) for RNW Open

Area: Performance enhancement Workstream: Performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7354 · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 11, 2021

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