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11,038,143 installs. That is how many times code I maintain has been downloaded.
About 680,000 a month right now.

What I maintain:

  • react-native-gifted-chat - 14,442 ⭐, 444,000 downloads/month
  • react-native-zoom-reanimated - 195,000/month
  • react-native-background-downloader - 79,000/month
  • react-native-action-cable - 17,000/month
  • react-native-chat - the modern successor to Gifted Chat
  • react-native-cloud-sync - iCloud key-value store, CloudKit, iCloud Drive and Google Drive behind one API

Everything I publish: https://www.npmjs.com/~kesha-antonov

Gifted Chat is the one to look at

It went 14 months without a release. 150,000 people a month kept installing it anyway.
I shipped the next one. Then 25 more.

Today:

  • 76% of the code is mine - 5,437 lines out of 7,176
  • 85% of every commit in two years is mine - 401 out of 471
  • 404 commits, more than anyone, including the original author at 303
  • 154 issues and 29 pull requests were rotting when I arrived. Now: 3 open issues
  • downloads went 168,000 → 444,000 a month. Before me: flat for 30 months straight

Same story everywhere else. The old react-native-background-downloader gets 200 downloads a week.
Mine gets 22,000.

What maintenance actually is

  • every new React Native version can break native code. Someone ports it before your build fails
  • every Reanimated, Gesture Handler and Expo SDK bump
  • iOS background limits, Android foreground services, Gradle, AGP, Kotlin
  • reproducing your bug on a device I don't own, from a stack trace
  • your PRs, your docs, your migration codemods

None of it ships anything for me. All of it keeps your app building on Monday.

Sponsoring buys my time

Faster issues. Same-week support for new RN and Expo releases. Real docs instead of a stale README.

If one of these is already in your package.json, you are getting the value today.
Sponsoring is what keeps it coming.

MIT and Apache 2.0. Free forever.

@kesha-antonov

One full maintenance day per week

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Featured work

  1. kesha-antonov/react-native-zoom-reanimated

    Smooth pinch-to-zoom component for React Native with Apple Photos-style gestures and rubber-band physics

    TypeScript 316
  2. kesha-antonov/react-native-background-downloader

    Download and upload large files on iOS & Android — even when your app is in the background or terminated.

    Kotlin 218
  3. FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat

    💬 The most complete chat UI for React Native

    TypeScript 14,441
  4. kesha-antonov/react-native-chat

    The most complete chat UI for React Native & Web - streaming AI messages, emoji reactions, replies, quick replies, and full customization. TypeScript-first, Expo-ready.

    TypeScript 71
  5. kesha-antonov/react-native-action-cable

    Use Rails ActionCable channels with React Native for real-time WebSocket communication.

    TypeScript 67
  6. kesha-antonov/react-native-cloud-sync

    iCloud key-value store, CloudKit, iCloud Drive and Google Drive under one API - iOS, Android and Web, old and new architecture

    TypeScript 6

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