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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

Set up desktop tests to capture and upload crash dumps Open

Area: Test Infrastructure enhancement Platform: Desktop Workstream: Test Coverage

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#5060 · Opened May 29, 2020
Support Bob for RNW Open

enhancement Extensions Workstream: Module Support

microsoft/react-native-windows#5051 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 29, 2020
Code Cleanup: Bundle.props can be moved into Bundle.targets Open

Area: Bundle Code Cleanup enhancement Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#5048 · 3 comments · Opened May 29, 2020
Code Cleanup: Targets and Props use `$(ProjectDir)` which is not common accross C# and C++ Open

Code Cleanup enhancement Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#5036 · Opened May 28, 2020
Community module support principles Open

Agenda enhancement Needs: PM Design Workstream: Module Support

microsoft/react-native-windows#5031 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 28, 2020
Have Bot Automatically Mark Changes to Template as Breaking Changes Open

Area: Issue Management enhancement Scenario: Upgrade Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

microsoft/react-native-windows#5018 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 27, 2020
Build baseline perf app(s) Open

Area: Performance enhancement Workstream: Performance

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4872 · 4 comments · Opened May 11, 2020
Consider Adding a Bot to Automate Backports Open

Area: Issue Management Area: Release Process Engineering Improvement Candidate enhancement Needs: Dev Design Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4864 · 3 comments · Opened May 10, 2020
Remove Global Leakage of winrt namespaces Open

Code Cleanup enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4841 · 1 comment · Opened May 8, 2020
package cleanup: Remove internal build logic (just-task.js) Open

Code Cleanup enhancement nice-to-have Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4813 · Opened May 6, 2020
package cleanup: Remove internal build logic (/Scripts) Open

Code Cleanup enhancement nice-to-have Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4811 · Opened May 6, 2020
Consider coalescing community native modules Open

Area: Native Modules Area: Performance enhancement Needs: Dev Design Workstream: Performance

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4795 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 5, 2020
DevSupportManager is a singleton - but it shouldn't be Open

Area: Debug Infrastructure bug Workstream: Developer Experience

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4663 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2020
Implement I18nManager.swapLeftAndRightInRTL Open

API: Completion Area: RTL enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4662 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2020
XBOX keyboard does not dismiss when controller start button is pressed. Open

Area: Gamepad Area: TextInput bug Platform: Xbox Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#4650 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2020
Usage of std::map/unordered_map and std::string hinders performance Open

Area: Performance enhancement Workstream: Performance

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4649 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2020
Remove workaround for MSVC compiler bug and yoga layout on X64 Release builds Open

Area: Performance Code Cleanup enhancement Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4630 · Opened Apr 17, 2020
Scroll list item remains in "pressed" state after scroll completes Open

Area: FlatList Area: Mouse bug Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4614 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2020
ABI-safe JavaScript Engine API Open

Area: Core DLL Area: JavaScript Engine enhancement Workstream: Developer Experience

microsoft/react-native-windows#4552 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 9, 2020
Reduce the instance management code in Microsoft.ReactNative.dll Open

Area: Core DLL Code Cleanup enhancement Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4549 · Opened Apr 9, 2020
Put all win32 specific NativeModules into a separate DLL Open

Area: Core DLL Code Cleanup enhancement Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4547 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 9, 2020
Improve Microsoft.ReactNative.dll Instance management API Open

Area: Core DLL Area: Instance Management enhancement Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4542 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2020
Split up the Microsoft.ReactNative.dll into two DLLs: Core and UWP Open

Area: Core DLL Code Cleanup enhancement Workstream: ES Compliance SFI

microsoft/react-native-windows#4540 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 9, 2020
Extract JSConverter into a JSConverter.h file Open

Area: Native Modules Code Cleanup enhancement Workstream: Module Support

microsoft/react-native-windows#4488 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 3, 2020
[Perf] Perform style.transform aggregation in native code Open

Area: Performance enhancement Partner: Xbox Workstream: Performance

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4468 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2020
Root-level perspective transform causes blurry Popups and Flyouts Open

Area: Flyout Area: Popup bug Needs: Dev Design Partner: Xbox Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4466 · 13 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2020
Popups do not render correctly in RTL mode Open

Area: Flyout Area: Layout Area: Popup Area: RTL bug Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#4432 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 26, 2020
Upstream Keyboarding and Accessibility Changes to Touchable/Pressable Open

Area: Keyboard Deforking enhancement Workstream: Releases and Integrations

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#4379 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 20, 2020
Remove UnimplementedView Stubs for iOS and Android Specific Components Open

Deforking enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4378 · Opened Mar 20, 2020
RNW app e2e debuggability and developer engagement Open

Area: Core DLL Area: Debug Infrastructure enhancement Workstream: Developer Experience

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4377 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 20, 2020
Make upstream changes to share Image Library JS Between Platforms Open

Area: Image Deforking enhancement Platform: Desktop Workstream: Releases and Integrations

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4320 · Opened Mar 16, 2020
Animated.Value does not increment properly Open

Area: Animation Area: Paper bug Deliverable Old Architecture Partner: Facebook Partner: Stream Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4312 · 11 comments · Opened Mar 13, 2020
Animated.Value cannot have a listener attatched to it Open

Area: Animation bug Partner: Facebook Partner: Stream Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4311 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 13, 2020
Use UIElement focus Open

Area: Focus enhancement Needs WinUI 3 Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4305 · Opened Mar 12, 2020
JS integer literals are parsed into folly::dynamic ints on debug, doubles on release Open

Area: Native Modules bug Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4225 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2020
I shouldn't have to prepend my eventnames with "top" Open

Documentation enhancement Workstream: Developer Experience

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#4206 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 27, 2020
AlertModule::showAlert crashes in Xaml Islands Open

Area: Islands bug Platform: Desktop Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4194 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 27, 2020
Remove all uses of findNodeHandle Open

Area: Fabric Code Cleanup enhancement New Architecture Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#4183 · Opened Feb 25, 2020
Need to support firing touch and keyboard events for Video when it is full screen Open

Area: Keyboard enhancement Extensions Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4157 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 20, 2020
Scale animations are blurry Open

Area: Animation Area: Text bug Partner: Stream Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4117 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 19, 2020
Inverting Flatlist does not render properly nor does scroll behavior work as expected Open

Area: FlatList bug Needs WinUI 3 Partner: Facebook Partner: Xbox Workstream: Component Parity

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#4098 · 24 comments · Opened Feb 13, 2020
Make Upstream Changes to Allow Reuse of Stock RNTesterList Shared Examples Open

Area: Test Infrastructure Deforking enhancement Workstream: Test Coverage

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4056 · Opened Feb 7, 2020
Separate Windows Specific Concepts From Stock RNTester Pages Open

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

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4055 · Opened Feb 7, 2020
Use Facebook Copies of IntegrationTests and RNTester When Published Open

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

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4054 · Opened Feb 7, 2020
Add Upstream Support for Lack of Dimensions Open

Area: Dimensions Deforking enhancement Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4050 · Opened Feb 7, 2020
Hairline Width Separators Do Not Consistently Render Open

Area: Layout bug Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4047 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 7, 2020
Investigate PGO for rnw binaries Open

Area: Infrastructure Area: Performance enhancement Workstream: Performance

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#4004 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 31, 2020
Clean-up global maps and non POD objects Open

Area: Infrastructure Area: Performance Code Cleanup enhancement nice-to-have Workstream: Performance

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#3964 · Opened Jan 27, 2020
Handle incorrect fontFamily gracefully. Open

Area: Text bug Workstream: Component Parity

microsoft/react-native-windows#3918 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 21, 2020
Picker's popup has a parallax effect Open

Area: Flyout Area: Layout Area: Picker bug Partner: Stream Workstream: Component Parity

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#3842 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 7, 2020

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