[gaza3g]

Thanks for this.

The thing that captured my interest was the point about being backed by Facebook. Parse was backed by Facebook and look where it is now.

[eclout]

I don't think Facebook backing Parse is relevant. React Native was designed by Facebook, so I'm assuming they understood the design choices of the mobile ecosystem at the time.

Parse was an acquisition by Facebook that didn't end up working out.

[spicyj]

I'll add that we use RN in our production apps and are building it for ourselves but never used Parse in the same way.