Maybe the same with some other projects of "programming influencers". The owner has 12k followers on Github, maybe even more on other networks. Those people can post a single announcement that they will do something new, and get like 1k stars for nothing, as well as a hand full of contributors.

This seems to be from an org that has a variety of different highly-starred template/education repos in Portuguese. Maybe part of some education program? See https://github.com/Rocketseat/react-native-template-rocketse...