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Native widgets from React, without leaving JSX

Home-screen widgets and Live Activities usually mean writing Swift by hand. Brik keeps that surface in React and compiles down to native.

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MCMukul Chugh
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Every React Native team hits the same wall: you want a widget, a Live Activity, or something in the Dynamic Island, and suddenly you're maintaining SwiftUI in a separate extension target.

Brik is my attempt to keep that work in JSX. You describe the widget once; it compiles to SwiftUI on iOS and Jetpack Compose on Android.

Widgets aren't normal RN views. They run in a tight process on the OS's schedule, often when your app isn't even open. There's no JS runtime in there. So Brik doesn't "render" at runtime: it produces native view code ahead of time.

That tradeoff is the whole product: stay in one language for the common cases, drop to native only when you must.

From JSX to a native widget

Describe the widget in React / JSX

Brik compiles ahead of time

SwiftUI on iOS
Jetpack Compose on Android

Native widget on the device

No JavaScript runtime in the widget.

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