@appsent-co/react-native-watchos

Build watchOS apps with React Native, rendered as native SwiftUI. React runs in Hermes on the watch and drives a SwiftUI view tree via JSI — no WebViews, no canvas, no compromises.

Pre-release

The renderer, JS runtime, Fast Refresh, and Watch Connectivity bridge are working end-to-end, but APIs may still change and the non-Expo path is not documented yet.

What you get

• Renderer — React 19 rendering to native SwiftUI, with most of the SwiftUI API surface: layout containers, lists, forms, navigation, controls, media, shapes, gradients, and watch-specific modifiers like digital crown rotation and sensory feedback.
• JS runtime — Hermes embedded on watchOS via JSI, with console.*, timers, fetch/XMLHttpRequest, and WebSocket.
• TurboModules — Create native modules in Swift / Obj-C++ and call them from JS with full codegen support.
• Watch Connectivity — Bidirectional messaging, user-info / app context sync, reachability, binary payloads.
• Dev experience — Metro ?platform=watchos resolution, Fast Refresh over WebSocket, shake-to-reload, on-device error toast, console.* forwarded to Metro.
• Expo plugin — Wires the Swift Package into your watch target, runs autolinking, installs the Release bundle build phase, and runs codegen for the WatchConnectivity spec.

Where to next

• New here? Start with the Installation guide.
• Hands-on? Walk through Your first screen.
• Curious how it works under the hood? Read the Architecture page.
• Building UI? Browse the Renderer section.