Code-wise, the most interesting things I've seen:
- They expose wrappers for native recycling list views[0]. React Native does this in JavaScript through VirtualizedList, however some have experienced performance issues with it[1]
- They wrote their own flexbox layout library[2] (likely based on Yoga)
- It works with both Vue[3] and React
- Hippy supports web as a build target out of the box[4] (react-native-web is a 3rd party library)
- Touch events work on the `<View />` component directly, instead of needing to wrap `<View />`'s in the `<Touchable />` components[5]
- It uses a closed-source fork of libv8 on Android called X5[6].
The API & coding style is quite similar to React Native, but the implementation seems different. I'm guessing this started as an internal fork of React Native and turned into a large refactor, but that's just a guess
[0]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/blob/master/ios/sdk/compone...
[1]: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/13413
[2]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/tree/master/layout
[3]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/tree/master/packages/hippy-...
[4]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/tree/master/packages/hippy-...
[5]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/tree/master/packages/hippy-...
[6]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/issues/9#issuecomment-56822...