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facebook/react-native vs google/re2

facebook/react-native shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, react-native shows healthier maintenance signals than re2. react-native rates Healthy overall while re2 rates Mixed. react-native was committed to 6 days ago with 34+ active contributors, while re2 last saw a commit 7 months ago with 6+ active contributors. react-native is MIT-licensed while re2 is BSD-3-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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facebook/react-native

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • Last commit today
  • 34+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 23% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

google/re2

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 4mo ago

MixedDependency

dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
  • Last commit 4mo ago
  • 6 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 49% of recent commits)
  • BSD-3-Clause licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

react-nativere2
Stars126,5509,660
Last commit6d ago7mo ago
LicenseMITBSD-3-Clause
Open issues1,15842
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage36%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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