[EngVagabond]

Disclaimer, I’m one of the EMs for React at Meta, and spent many years directly working on React Native.

> It is not useful, at all for building apps. Apps (as in, mobile apps) cannot be rendered on the sever. You need an api.

Yet.

React Server Components as a pattern and paradigm are not unique to web sites and the team has designed it with React Native in mind. We are just starting with web to flesh out the ideas and work with the ecosystem first.

RSCs (and SSR) are both technologies totally possible to use with RN, theoretically, we just haven’t built out the support yet. At the most basic, instead of rendering to HTML that the server sends down, it would render to commands that React Native’s native code would execute. Similar to the distinction between React DOM and React Native.

So we are excited about these technologies even though they are currently web only, and it’ll still be a while until we bring them to React Native.

Evan Bacon from Expo also experimented with RSC for React Native: https://x.com/baconbrix/status/1629909713910480898?s=46