microsoft/react-native-windows

A framework for building native Windows apps with React.

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Forks: 1.2k
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

FAST_FAIL_FATAL_APP_EXIT (0xc0000409) on first ReactNativeHost API call in Release/standalone builds — reproducible with minimal JS, on both 0.85.0-preview.1 and 0.84.0 Open

Needs: Triage :mag:

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#16442 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Fabric: activating the window doesn't announce the window or the focused control to a screen reader Open

Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16435 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Layout, involving negative margin, changes between debug and release builds Open

bug Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16410 · Opened Aug 30, 2026
[Composition] Keyboard focus visual not shown when focus is set programmatically or via NavigateFocus into a newly-shown content island Open

bug Invalid Triage Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16368 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
[Fabric][Composition] Expose a non-mutating focusability API on ComponentView (e.g. IsFocusable ) for FocusZone / single-tab-stop scenarios Open

bug Invalid Triage Needs: Triage :mag:

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#16363 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Calculator sample CI (Upgrade) legs fail with MSB8036: Windows SDK 10.0.22621.0 not found on build agents Open

Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16362 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Native-API reference docs no longer regenerated - UpdateNativeApiDocs.ps1 broken since #15848 (WinRT API docs artifacts retired) Open

bug Documentation Invalid Triage

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#16355 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
[0.85] React Native DevTools "Performance" panel: recording a trace then Stop disconnects the app Open

bug Invalid Triage Needs: Triage :mag:

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#16354 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Fabric text is drawn with ClearType onto transparent composition surfaces, fringing thin glyphs Open

Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16340 · Opened Jul 26, 2026
Fabric touch input unreliable on real touch hardware: touch pointerdown carries button=-1 (presses ignored), and missed releases/capture loss strand active touches that wedge press recognition app-wide Open

Invalid Triage Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16332 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Fabric TextInput never invokes the touch keyboard on focus in a WinAppSDK island app (windowless RichEdit) — keyboard never appears on a keyboard-less tablet Open

Needs: Triage :mag:

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#16331 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
[msvc] react-native-windows failed with warning C4864: expected 'template' keyword before dependent template name Open

bug Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16321 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Fabric: core Switch renders but never fires onValueChange on mouse click (new architecture) Open

Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16316 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Networking: fetch/XHR GETs can silently return stale cached responses — default HttpBaseProtocolFilter never sets CacheControl.ReadBehavior Open

Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16315 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
0.85 Release Status Open

Area: Release Process Needs: Triage :mag:

microsoft/react-native-windows#16312 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Permanent UI thread hang: unbounded ProcessDelayedPropsNodes retry loop when a native-driver animation targets a view absent from the Fabric registry Open

Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16309 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Registered icon-font TTFs render blank glyphs until table checksums/table directory are recomputed — silent failure in the DWrite font path Open

Needs: Triage :mag:

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#16308 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Native Modal on new architecture opens a separate top-level OS window (DesktopPopupSiteBridge) — transparent flex:1 content measures 0x0, full-screen overlays impossible Open

Needs: Triage :mag:

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#16307 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
DirectWrite text layout cannot resolve font families whose names contain spaces — 'Material Icons' renders tofu, same font renamed 'MaterialIcons' renders Open

Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16306 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 11, 2026
TextInput with no explicit backgroundColor paints the OS system window color (white strip on dark themes) — TxGetSysColor COLOR_WINDOW falls through to tomAutoColor Open

Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16305 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
0.83.2 can't find `@react-native-windows/find-dotnet-tools` Open

bug Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16278 · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Dependency docs (both 0.81 and current 0.83) say VS 2022, but `MinimumVisualStudioVersion=18.0` since 0.81.28 requires VS 2026 Open

bug Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16275 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 18, 2026
init-windows fails silently with "unknown command" when pwsh.exe is missing; not documented in rnw-dependencies Open

bug Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16274 · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Unfork NetworkIOAgent.cpp destructor and enableAgent API changes from 0.85 nightly integration Open

Integration Follow-up Needs: Triage :mag:

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#16263 · Opened Jun 16, 2026
Unfork AnimatedPropSerializer.cpp override added during 0.85 nightly integration Open

Integration Follow-up Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16262 · Opened Jun 16, 2026
Unfork MapBuffer.cpp override added during 0.85 nightly integration Open

Integration Follow-up Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16261 · Opened Jun 16, 2026
Vertical scrollbar never reappears after resizing window from non-scrollable back to scrollable (ScrollBarComponent::updateVisibility latch) Open

bug Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16251 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
shadowColor/shadowOffset/shadowOpacity/shadowRadius do not respect borderRadius on View — shadow renders as rectangle Open

bug Needs: Triage :mag:

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#16216 · Opened Jun 4, 2026
ellipsizeMode='tail' with numberOfLines truncates at long word boundary instead of end of last line Open

bug Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16215 · Opened Jun 4, 2026
Default Text Input is padding issue Open

Needs: Triage :mag: Status: Investigating

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#16204 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 3, 2026
Focus outline/visual incorrectly shown when element receives focus programmatically on app start Open

bug Needs: Triage :mag:

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#16177 · Opened May 25, 2026
Window not gaining focus on app start Open

bug Invalid Triage Needs: Triage :mag:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/react-native-windows#16176 · Opened May 25, 2026
Crash when overwriting selected text in <TextInput/> with Japanese IME Open

bug Release0.85

microsoft/react-native-windows#16088 · 1 assignee · Opened May 6, 2026
Release builds are hard-coded to use x86 Hermes, even on ARM Windows Open

bug Release0.85

microsoft/react-native-windows#16084 · 1 assignee · Opened May 4, 2026
New project does not build in VS if root dir contains a space Open

bug

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#16053 · Opened Apr 26, 2026
TextInput value and placeholders are not aligned out of the box Open

bug

microsoft/react-native-windows#15939 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 6, 2026
Focus visuals do not show when views are clipped? Open

bug

microsoft/react-native-windows#15876 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 30, 2026
Unify assert and Assert and make it pluggable Open

Area: Debug Infrastructure bug

microsoft/react-native-windows#15859 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 27, 2026
Forked files for 0.84.0-nightly-20251212-dd390dbbe integration Open

bug Integration Follow-up

microsoft/react-native-windows#15782 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 16, 2026
To Comment azure-pipelines PR Open

enhancement

microsoft/react-native-windows#15781 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 16, 2026
Implement IProvideFontInfo to unify font loading Open

bug enhancement

microsoft/react-native-windows#15750 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 9, 2026
Luxon causes crash in 0.81.2 Open

bug

microsoft/react-native-windows#15678 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 20, 2026
Implement RuntimeTargetDelegate::serializeStackTrace API Open

enhancement Integration Follow-up

microsoft/react-native-windows#15677 · 1 comment · 2 assignees · Opened Feb 20, 2026
Switch Component IOS26 issue Open

bug Integration Follow-up

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

microsoft/react-native-windows#15652 · Opened Feb 11, 2026
[Fabric] Microsoft.UI.Composition lacks the necessary APIs to bind video content to composition visuals Open

bug enhancement

microsoft/react-native-windows#15631 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 6, 2026
NPM package should not include .h/.cpp files. Open

bug

microsoft/react-native-windows#15618 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 2, 2026
NuGet packages are missing for 0.81.3 Open

bug

microsoft/react-native-windows#15608 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · 2 assignees · Opened Jan 29, 2026
[0.82] Fork SwitchNativeComponent.js to generate native component implementation for windows Open

enhancement Integration Follow-up

microsoft/react-native-windows#15582 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 23, 2026
KeyboardType Property implementation in fabric Open

bug

microsoft/react-native-windows#15572 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 22, 2026
WindowsAppSDK 1.7.x breaks React Native Windows build (LNK1104 – win10- path bug) Open

bug

microsoft/react-native-windows#15562 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 21, 2026

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