Lynx

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Empower the Web community and invite more to build across platforms.

A native app development tool based on web technologies

About

• A faster and smoother alternative to React Native made by TikTok (ByteDance)
• Lynx is a family of technologies that helps you build native UIs using web technologies
  • Can target multiple platforms, such as mobile and web, from a single codebase
• Provides performance-focused UI programming and Rust-based tooling for large-scale apps like TikTok
  • Decided to open-source it to overcome the limits of existing cross-platform development

Delivering large-scale, fast native apps

• For mobile app users, a non-native experience leads to negative perceptions
  • Blank screens, 0.1-second animation delays, inconsistent UI, and the like erode trust
• Building the same experience while supporting multiple platforms is still a hard problem
• Lynx supports multiple platforms from a single codebase, reducing development time and cost
• TikTok adopted Lynx gradually with successful results
  • Lynx is used across various platforms such as TikTok Studio, Shop, and LIVE
  • Lynx was also used for major events (Disney100, Met Gala, etc.)

See also

• React Native
• Electron
• TikTok
• Sparkling - TikTok's cross-platform infrastructure

Favorite site

• Lynx web site
• Github - lynx-family/lynx
• Lynx - A native app development tool based on web technologies | GeekNews