# What is SymbioteNative?

> A framework-agnostic renderer that lets non-React frameworks drive real React Native Fabric views.

SymbioteNative is a framework-agnostic renderer for real native iOS and Android apps.
It keeps React Native's native stack — Fabric, JSI, Yoga, Hermes, and the host
platforms — and replaces only the JavaScript renderer that talks to Fabric.

React is not privileged inside React Native's renderer. Fabric exposes a
JSI-bound mutation surface through `global.nativeFabricUIManager`. React Native's
React renderer is one client of that surface. SymbioteNative lets other framework
adapters become clients too.

## The shortest version

```txt
React · Vue · Angular · Svelte · Solid
        ↓
thin framework reconciler
        ↓
@symbiote-native/engine
        ↓
nativeFabricUIManager
        ↓
stock React Native Fabric
```

The output is still native Fabric views. SymbioteNative is not a WebView, not a React
Native fork, and not a compatibility shim that pretends React components are
framework-agnostic.

## Why this exists

React Native has an excellent native runtime, but most of the ecosystem can only
use it through React. If you write Vue, Svelte, Solid, or Angular, your choices
usually collapse to a WebView, a rewrite, or a separate native abstraction.

SymbioteNative opens the renderer seam that already exists in Fabric and gives each UI
framework a thin adapter over one shared native engine.

## What works today

- React is the reference adapter and canary, live on the framework switcher.
- Vue 3 proves the same engine can be driven by a non-React framework, also
  live on the switcher.
- Angular is a real, tested adapter too, also live on the switcher — see the
  [status page](/docs/project/status/) for what's still catching up.
- Svelte is a real, tested adapter too — a DOM shim over stock compiled
  Svelte output, verified on-device on iOS and Android, also live on the
  switcher.
- Solid is a real, tested adapter too, a Solid custom renderer over
  `solid-js/universal`'s own `createRenderer` with full component parity,
  also live on the switcher, verified on device like the other four
  adapters (see the [status page](/docs/project/status/)).
- The engine owns mutation-to-Fabric persistence, event normalization, and commit
  batching.
- The native core remains stock React Native.

Start with the [quick start](/docs/quick-start/) or read [how it works](/docs/how-it-works/).