Important
Deprecated - no longer maintained
As of 2026-10-24, react-native-xaml is no longer maintained. No further maintenance, bug fixes, or security updates are planned. Source code, history, and existing releases remain available for reference.
This project does not provide a direct replacement. This deprecation applies only to react-native-xaml, not to React Native for Windows.
For security vulnerability reporting, follow SECURITY.md.
The documentation below is retained for historical reference.
A React Native Windows view manager that allows directly using the Windows XAML framework.
To see examples of the syntax and available controls, check out the Usage guide.
- Allows developers writing react-native-windows apps (React Native apps targeting Windows 10) to quickly get started, if they are familiar with XAML.
- Developers are not limited by the set of controls present today in RNW and community modules that support Windows.
- The set of types/properties/events are the XAML ones, however JS libraries can wrap those to expose the Windows control in a platform-agnostic way (e.g. as a way to implement a cross-plat control for Windows).
react-native-xaml works by leveraging metadata for XAML properties, types and events. This metadata is automatically generated (code-gen) from the Windows SDK. This means we can have a full projection of all of XAML – or any WinRT components written by app devs, that export a UserControl – without manual intervention.
See Technical Guide.
See the Contribution Guide for the maintenance status and historical development instructions.
