microsoft/react-native-windows

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A framework for building native Windows apps with React.

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Open beginner issues: 2
Indexed issues: 724
Avg merge: 1d 13h
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

Override tool needs better error messaging/instructions Open

Deforking enhancement Only Affects Internal Development Quick Task Workstream: Releases and Integrations

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#7253 · Opened Mar 3, 2021
Re-export "@types/react-native" with forked props Open

Area: FlatList Area: Focus Area: Keyboard Area: Mouse enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#7231 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 1, 2021
Make Touchable Text Changes strict-local clean Open

Code Cleanup Deforking enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#7149 · Opened Feb 17, 2021
Add Inter-process cooperation Tests for node-rnw-rpc (automation-channel) Open

Area: Test Infrastructure Area: Tests enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#7131 · Opened Feb 13, 2021
Error out any pending RPC Request Promises if Client Closed (automation-channel) Open

Area: Test Infrastructure enhancement PR Follow-up Workstream: Test Coverage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#7113 · Opened Feb 12, 2021
Replace node-rnw-rpc (automation-channel) throw to noexcept boundary with VerifyElseCrash Open

Area: Test Infrastructure enhancement PR Follow-up Workstream: Test Coverage

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#7112 · Opened Feb 12, 2021
Move IPC Reconnect Loop From API user to node-rnw-rpc (automation-channel) Open

enhancement Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#7110 · Opened Feb 11, 2021
Add JSON Schema Validation to JSON-RPC2 Server in node-rnw-rpc Open

Area: Test Infrastructure enhancement Workstream: Test Coverage

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#7108 · Opened Feb 11, 2021
Changing from LTR to RTL layout requires reloading JS bundle and the layout doesn't persist on restarting the application. Open

Area: RTL enhancement Needs: Dev Design Workstream: Developer Experience

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#7070 · 10 comments · Opened Feb 9, 2021
Hook jest tests up to coverage reporters Open

Area: Test Infrastructure enhancement PR Follow-up Workstream: Test Coverage

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#7005 · Opened Feb 1, 2021
Deep linking doesn't work if the app isn't running Open

bug Needs: Dev Design Partner: AppConsult Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6996 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 30, 2021
Create ReactNativeIsland control Open

enhancement Needs: Dev Design Partner: Microsoft Workstream: Module Support

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6994 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 30, 2021
vnext codegen files deleted and not restored with `yarn build` on Mac Open

Area: Build Infrastructure bug Mac Development Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6939 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2021
Add more ReactNotificationService tests Open

Area: Tests enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

microsoft/react-native-windows#6881 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 15, 2021
Improvement on Error Messages for YGValues Open

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

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6864 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 13, 2021
Reconcile Custom AccessibilityInfo RNTester Examples With Upstream Open

Area: Accessibility Deforking enhancement Workstream: Accessibility

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6839 · Opened Jan 8, 2021
Some JSI Unit Tests Fail Open

Area: JavaScript Engine bug Workstream: Developer Experience

microsoft/react-native-windows#6799 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 29, 2020
Document RNW threading requirements Open

Documentation Documentation: New or changed API enhancement Workstream: Developer Experience

microsoft/react-native-windows#6748 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 15, 2020
VS upgrades can break run-windows builds Open

Area: Build Infrastructure Area: CLI Area: Developer Experience bug Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6747 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2020
react-native-platform-override should ignore .DS_Store files Open

Area: Release Process enhancement Workstream: Releases and Integrations

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#6699 · Opened Dec 7, 2020
Bundling should not re-run when no changes to JS files Open

Area: Bundle Area: Developer Experience enhancement Workstream: Developer Experience

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6688 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2020
Provide better ways to analyze React Native performance on Windows Open

Area: Performance Deliverable enhancement Partner: Microsoft Workstream: Performance

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6681 · 1 comment · 9 reactions · Opened Dec 4, 2020
Bumps to @react-native-windows/telemetry will not cause new versions of react-native-windows-init to be released Open

Area: Infrastructure Area: Telemetry enhancement External Workstream: Telemetry

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#6674 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 4, 2020
allowRTL (and forceRTL) set in index.tsx file won't get set early enough to be used Open

Area: RTL bug Partner: Xbox Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6645 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2020
Implement Image.prefetchWithMetadata Open

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

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6571 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 19, 2020
Allow modules to run code during autolinking (to capture unmet implicit dependencies/requirements) Open

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

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#6553 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2020
Generate intellisense docs out of the same content as WinRT API docs Open

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

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6540 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 16, 2020
Ensure NuGet package is published before npm package Open

Area: Build Infrastructure bug Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6446 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2020
Make react-native-windows-init oblivious to project generation flags Open

Area: CLI enhancement Workstream: Developer Experience

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#6445 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 6, 2020
Add `button` number property to mouse events Open

Area: Mouse enhancement Needs: PM Design Partner: Facebook Workstream: Component Parity

microsoft/react-native-windows#6410 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 3, 2020
TurboModules should be able to specify they need eager init Open

Area: Native Modules enhancement Workstream: Module Support

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6377 · Opened Oct 29, 2020
Re-enable AppVerifer for E2E tests Open

Area: Test Infrastructure enhancement Workstream: Test Coverage

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6335 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2020
Nesting non-Text Components in Text is Unsupported Open

API: Completion Area: Text enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6315 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 23, 2020
Add Windows as a platform filter to redesigned RNTester Open

Area: Developer Experience enhancement good first issue nice-to-have Upstream Workstream: Gallery and Samples

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6314 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 23, 2020
Master task: Add tests for every ViewManager, and test setting every prop/event Open

Area: Tests enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6227 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 10, 2020
codegen project requires dotnet core which might not be installed Open

Area: Developer Experience Developer First Experience enhancement Workstream: Developer Experience

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6201 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 7, 2020
Use deterministic compiler/linker flags Open

Area: Build Infrastructure Area: Developer Experience Developer First Experience enhancement Needs: Dev Design Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6167 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 2, 2020
Allow JS to Control Animation Batching (NativeAnimatedModule API completion) Open

API: Completion Area: Animation enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6161 · Opened Oct 1, 2020
Install project system tools VSIX to rnw-dependencies Open

Area: Build Infrastructure enhancement Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6160 · Opened Oct 1, 2020
Add "Change categories" to yarn change Open

Area: Infrastructure enhancement Quick Task Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6156 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 1, 2020
react-native-platform-override cannot handle combined renames + move Open

Area: Release Process enhancement Workstream: Releases and Integrations

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6143 · Opened Oct 1, 2020
Add Docs for Integration Tests and CLI Tests Open

Area: Tests Documentation enhancement Quick Task Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6110 · Opened Sep 27, 2020
Missing Support for "needsOffscreenAlphaCompositing" View Property Open

API: Completion enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6097 · Opened Sep 25, 2020
Missing Support for "nativeID" View Property Open

API: Completion enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6096 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 25, 2020
Detect IntegrationTest Shutdown Crashes Open

Area: Test Infrastructure enhancement Workstream: Test Coverage

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6090 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2020
Couldn't create react windows app with existing react-native application if app name has a dash in it Open

Area: CLI Developer First Experience enhancement help wanted Workstream: Developer Experience

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6005 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 15, 2020
Desktop dll hardcodes other libraries exports Open

bug Code Cleanup Platform: Desktop Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#6001 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2020
Fix Synchronization Issues in IntegrationTest Project Open

Area: Test Infrastructure bug Workstream: Test Coverage

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#5963 · Opened Sep 11, 2020
remove --info from run-windows Open

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

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#5948 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2020
Template gitignore file should exclude binlogs Open

Area: Developer Experience Area: Infrastructure Developer First Experience enhancement Workstream: Developer Experience

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#5937 · 10 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2020

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