I Tried TikTok’s Lynx – Is It Better Than React Native?

TikTok built a cross-platform framework with a Rust engine, dual runtime threads, and styling in plain CSS. Bold promises, so I gave Lynx a real test: fresh project, iOS simulator, and a scrollable Pokémon list. The full experiment is in the video, rough edges included.

What's inside

• The dual runtime architecture that keeps UI updates fast
• Spinning up a project with bun create lynx@latest
• Testing on iOS with the prebuilt Lynx Explorer app
• Styling with real CSS, gradients and box shadows included
• Building a list and the scroll issues I had to work around
• The gaps today: no hot reload, no navigation library, sparse docs

Resources

CourseReact Native course

17 sections and 800+ minutes, from fundamentals to shipping on the stores.