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My main gripe is that for practical purposes is all react-native or nothing.

I will be happy if use React ONLY for the UI, and use swift/.net for all the rest. But merge both is problematic (as far I know).

Exist a way to achieve this? Where I can use react only for the design of the UI and fully native elsewhere?

It's fairly straightforward but you need to write some Obj-C, I don't think you can do it entirely in Swift yet. It's pretty painless in iOS, YMMV on Android. See here for details: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-modules-...