What do you dislike about React Native?

We, the React Native team at Facebook, would like to get a current list of all the things that people in the community are having problems with when using React Native. There are many discussions out there, and this has been done in the past, but let's have a fresh start and make a collection of things that we can then consider looking at in 2019. For now, we'll just make a list. Please don't expect any of these things to be prioritized and fixed right away. For me personally, this is helpful to learn more as I just joined the React Native team.

Please reply with all the issues that you are having with React Native. Keep your descriptions short and ideally link to other places with more context. Feel free to mention not just technical things but rather any issue that can be ascribed to the React Native project. Add hashtags if you like for easier categorization.

Please do not troll, rage, rant or insult people. Please do not comment here asking to merge your PRs or fix your issues right now . Open source discussions can get heated, but being angry about things won't help anyone make progress. If something has been mentioned already, please use the upvote/emoji buttons instead of repeating the same thing so that it's easier to see how many people care about each issue. Please make one comment per topic so that people can upvote just one thing at a time.

Hypothetical Example:

Not enough emoji

The React Native CLI barely prints any emoji and it reduces my satisfaction with React Native. I know that other members of the team have said they would enjoy using more emoji as well. Here is an issue that references emoji: facebook/react-native#22463 #emoji

• Why use emoji?