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It feels a bit unfair to expect more apps to use React Native at this point, it has only just ben open sourced.

Oh I didn't expect many, I just wanted to know what's been published that uses React. I want to test the apps and see if they live up to the hype. For the past six years, I've tried so many non-Apple frameworks for building iOS apps that I gave up about 6 months ago after Famo.us.

It depends on your use case. React is just the VIEW layer, the core is till lie in Objective-C layer.

React (outside of React Native) is being used on many high traffic websites.

- Facebook comments, chat, search, ads creation, photo upload, tablet website... and basically every new product being written.

- Entire Instagram website

- Yahoo Mail: http://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/101682875656/evolving-yahoo-...

- A lot of the Khan Academy front-end: http://khan.github.io/react-components/

- Netflix website and TV experiences: http://conf.reactjs.com/schedule.html#beyond-the-dom-how-net...

- Many Airbnb new products: http://www.slideshare.net/spikebrehm/the-evolution-of-airbnb...

- Flipboard mobile website: http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web/

- ...

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