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Your application may need access to platform features that aren’t directly available from react-native or one of the hundreds of third-party libraries maintained by the community. Maybe you want to reuse some existing Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin or C++ code from the JavaScript runtime. Whatever your reason, React Native exposes a powerful set of API to connect your native code to your JavaScript application code.

This guide introduces:

  • Native Modules: native libraries that have no User Interface (UI) for the user. Examples would be persistent storage, notifications, network events. These are accessible to your user as JavaScript functions and objects.
  • Native Component: native platform views, widgets and controllers that are available to your application's JavaScript code through React Components.

:::note You might have previously been familiar with:

These are our deprecated native module and component API. You can still use many of these legacy libraries with the New Architecture thanks to our interop layers. You should consider:

  • using alternative libraries,
  • upgrading to newer library versions that have first-class support for the New Architecture, or
  • port these libraries yourself to Turbo Native Modules or Fabric Native Components.

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  1. Native Modules
  2. Fabric Native Components