---
title: "Bringing Godot Engine into React Native Apps"
publication: "React Status"
issue: 450
published_at: "2025-11-05"
canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/450"
---

Plus React is used by the majority of new, funded startups. |        

#​450 — November 5, 2025 

[Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/450)  

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[Storybook 10: Now ESM-Only, 29% Lighter, and More](https://storybook.js.org/blog/storybook-10/) — The popular frontend component workshop says goodbye to CommonJS: it’s now ESM-only, and much lighter as a result. There’s also a new module automocking approach, built in collaboration with the [Vitest](https://vitest.dev/) folks, Next.js 16 and Vitest 4 support, and [an evolved version](https://storybook.js.org/docs/api/csf/csf-next?ref=storybookblog.ghost.io) of Storybook’s Component Story Format (CSF). 

Storybook 10   [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/390030ec.png)](https://surveyjs.io/?utm_source=react_status&utm_medium=email) 

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SurveyJS sponsor   

🕹️ [Born React Native Godot: Embed Godot Engine in React Native Apps](https://github.com/borndotcom/react-native-godot) — [Godot](https://godotengine.org/) is a popular, open source 2D and 3D game engine and this freshly open sourced project, supporting both Android and iOS, can be used to bring Godot into a React Native app with full API accessibility from JavaScript. 

Slay GmbH   

**IN BRIEF:** 

- ⚠️ JFrog's security team has [discovered a critical vulnerability](https://jfrog.com/blog/CVE-2025-11953-critical-react-native-community-cli-vulnerability/) in the [React Native Community CLI](https://github.com/react-native-community/cli) which can allow remote command execution when running a development server.
- There was [an interesting discussion on Reddit](https://old.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/1onblrs/facebookcom_has_140_layers_of_context_providers/) about how Facebook has 140 layers of context providers, including some discussion as to why.
- The _Evil Martians_ did some [analysis of recently funded startups to see how popular React is](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/why-startups-choose-react-and-when-you-should-not) versus the alternatives. Unsurprisingly, React is used by the majority.
- Someone is working on [a React component for rendering fiber layouts and server racks.](https://react-networks-lib.rackout.net/) It's a neat demo, but isn't publicly available yet.   

▶[Using React Compiler 1.0 with TanStack Start](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-17PRN7jg) — React YouTuber-extraordinaire walks us through some serious performance gains he noticed when letting React Compiler perform its auto-memoization optimizations. _(9 minutes.)_ 

Jack Herrington   

[The Road to Next](https://www.road-to-next.com/?utm_source=react_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=next_course) — Learn full-stack web development with Next.js 15 and React 19. The perfect match for JavaScript developers ready to go beyond the frontend. 

Robin Wieruch sponsor   

📄 [Creating Generative Artwork with Three.js and React](https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/01/15/creating-generative-artwork-with-three-js/) – Fun and artistic. Eduard Fossas 

📄 [How to AirDrop a SQLite Database from Your React Native App](https://spin.atomicobject.com/sqlite-database-react-native-app/) Patrick Pale 

📄 [Running Next.js Inside ChatGPT: A Deep Dive into Native App Integration](https://vercel.com/blog/running-next-js-inside-chatgpt-a-deep-dive-into-native-app-integration) Andrew Qu (Vercel)  

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/xeyrqpszxrlehdbijske.jpg)](https://github.com/rjsf-team/react-jsonschema-form)  

[react-jsonschema-form 6.0: Build Forms from JSON Schemas](https://github.com/rjsf-team/react-jsonschema-form) — A React component capable of building HTML forms out of a JSON schema document. There’s [a live, full-featured demo](https://rjsf-team.github.io/react-jsonschema-form/) if you want to give it a spin. 

RJSF Team   

[React Syntax Highlighter: A Code Syntax Highlighting Component](https://react-syntax-highlighter.github.io/react-syntax-highlighter/demo/) — If you need to show off source code in your React app somewhere, this is a component that does the job. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/react-syntax-highlighter/react-syntax-highlighter) 

Conor Hastings   

[Slim Select 3.0: An Advanced Select Dropdown Control](https://slimselectjs.com/) — A feature-rich select dropdown component with no dependencies. [v3.0](https://github.com/brianvoe/slim-select/releases/tag/v3.0.0) adds an official React component option, fixes bugs, and improves accessibility. 

Brian Voelker   

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/cxp29qoxdif1lb666mdu.jpg)](https://github.com/acro5piano/react-native-big-calendar)  

- 🗓️ [React Native Big Calendar v4.19](https://github.com/acro5piano/react-native-big-calendar) – A Google Calendar/Outlook-style calendar component – as shown above. ([Demos.](https://react-native-big-calendar.vercel.app/?path=/story/showcase-desktop--month-mode))
- [React Native WebGPU 0.4](https://github.com/wcandillon/react-native-webgpu) – [Dawn](https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn)-powered WebGPU implementation for React Native. Now also supports React Native Web.
- ♟️ [React Chessboard 5.8](https://github.com/Clariity/react-chessboard) – Responsive chessboard component.
- [React Uploady 1.12](https://react-uploady.org/) – Components and hooks for file uploading.
- [Reactist 29.0](https://doist.github.io/reactist/?path=/story/reactist--page) – A suite of open source React components.
- [Reagent 2.0](https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent) – A ClojureScript interface to React.
- [ESLint v9.39.1](https://eslint.org/blog/2025/11/eslint-v9.39.1-released/)      

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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem  

Some other interesting stories in the broader landscape:  

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/tcjf7q6woxlhrkkxgafg.jpg)](https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/11/04/javascript-source-maps-internals)  

- [A look into how JavaScript source maps work](https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/11/04/javascript-source-maps-internals) under the hood and how all the pieces fit together to make them useful.
- A reminder that if you use npm classic tokens for publishing packages or otherwise working with the npm registry, [npm will be revoking all classic npm tokens](https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-29-strengthening-npm-security-important-changes-to-authentication-and-token-management/) in the next couple of weeks.
- Node v24 has become the new active LTS release of Node as of [Node v24.11.0 (LTS)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v24.11.0). The Node team has put together [a v22 to v24 migration guide](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/migrations/v22-to-v24) covering breaking changes if you're preparing to upgrade.
- Did you know Node has a feature called [customization hooks](https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v21.x/api/module.html#customization-hooks) that lets you change how modules and resolved and loaded? Evan Hahn shows how this can be used to [use BitTorrent as a source for a Node module.](https://evanhahn.com/node-torrent-import/)
- [Vercel now supports the Bun runtime.](https://bun.com/blog/vercel-adds-native-bun-support)         

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