How large is Flutter vs React Native community in 2021
Tags: flutter, reactnative, mobile, programming
Published: 2021-03-03 10:49:24

In some blogs or articles I am often reading that Flutter community is small or smaller then React Native community. 

So I decided to create a small survey where I went through various social sites and compared how Flutter community is really large opposite to React Native.

Here are my results:

# Reddit
**Flutter:** 63.8k
**React Native:** 70.5k


[Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/rpjk18n3rlsdn70mgbkg.png)
[Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/reactnative/)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/z6jvbgo2gykzflmvtudr.png)
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# StackOverflow
**Flutter:** 78,544 questions 
**React Native:** 95,080 questions 

[Source](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flutter?sort=Newest&edited=true)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/01nfze6gkd7a65bkigmd.png)
[Source](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/react-native?sort=Newest&edited=true) 
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/nmmgkt7eaxnmkl93aarf.png)
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**Flutter:** 19,383 questions with no answers
**React Native:** 25,101 questions with no answers

[Source](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flutter?sort=Newest&filters=NoAnswers&edited=true)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/68yxiwle7rehvyrdz84m.png)
 [Source](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/react-native?sort=Newest&filters=NoAnswers&edited=true)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/lmergyg9hm1ncz38lxa2.png)
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# Github
**Flutter:** 
- stars: 114K
- forks: 16.3K
- contributors: 811
- commits: 22 905

**React Native:** 
- stars: 93.7K
- forks: 20.6K
- contributors: 2 259
- commits: 22 050

Here it is interesting because React Native have a lot of contributors contributing for a short time but Flutter have more contributors contributing for a large time.
Result is that both projects have a same number of commits.

[Source](https://github.com/flutter/flutter)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/2mxavoh7ucy8ieqt1sxt.png)
[Source](https://github.com/facebook/react-native)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/g2q4mkbh1hwrjaam0n9c.png)
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# Dev.to
**Flutter:** 1220 articles 
**React Native:** 1723 articles

[Source](https://dev.to/t/flutter) 
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/p0cd8cmv5we6l8prz36e.png) 
[Source](https://dev.to/t/reactnative) 
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ukv20q2d5ax4m7hhd194.png) 
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# Gitter
**Flutter:** 12662 people
**ReactNative:** 1958 people

[Source](https://gitter.im/flutter/flutter)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/chi2tg2sbw58osjab4nv.png)
 [Source](https://gitter.im/fear48/react-native)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/hden7nnjb77hj5n1ks03.png)
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# Facebook
**Flutter:** 129.7K people
**React Native:** 111K people

[Source](https://www.facebook.com/groups/409645446115733)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/6lz7d72zss5ohv2jeruc.png)
 [Source](https://www.facebook.com/groups/669915249871846)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/a7o1kbp01irvf15c5si9.png)
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# Twitter
**Flutter:** 
- follovers: 131K 
- tweets: 1344

**React Native:** 
- followers: 104.1K
- tweets: 551

[Source](https://twitter.com/flutterdev)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/sdhgdthar809uxomkr5y.png)
[Source](https://twitter.com/reactnative)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ddqfgjy015955m6j9dh2.png)
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# LinkedIn
**Flutter:** 13.6K people
**React Native:** 23.1K people

[Source](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/groups/?keywords=flutter&origin=GLOBAL_SEARCH_HEADER)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/iyeb77v7ydn45v0qte5e.png) 
[Source](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/groups/?keywords=react%20native&origin=GLOBAL_SEARCH_HEADER)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/dp4hubw1kh31tgd2jtva.png)
 
# Instagram
**Flutter:** 20.8K followers
**React Native:** 3369 followers

[Source](https://www.instagram.com/flutter.developers/)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/vjpkyic6po1p4eaw0wy6.png) 

[Source](https://www.instagram.com/reactnativedevelopers/)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/da817scuji60kixgf3wb.png)

[Source](https://www.instagram.com/reactnative.modules/)
![alt text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/t7g90ntuuawepdmgdwnh.png)

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# Conclusion

### Overview:
<table> 
<tr><th></th><th>Flutter</th><th>React Native</th><th>Difference</th><th>Winner</th></tr>
<tr><td>First stable release</td><td>12.4. 2018</td><td>27.3. 2015</td><td>3 years</td><td>RN</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reddit followers</td><td>63.8K</td><td>70.5K</td><td>6.7K</td><td>RN</td></tr>
<tr><td>StackOverflow all questions</td><td>78 544</td><td>95 080</td><td>16 536</td><td>RN</td></tr>
<tr><td>StackOverflow questions without answer</td><td>19 383</td><td>25 101</td><td>5 718</td><td>Flutter</td></tr>
<tr><td>Github stars</td><td>114K</td><td>93.7K</td><td>20.3K</td><td>Flutter</td></tr>
<tr><td>Github commits</td><td>22 905</td><td>22 050</td><td>855</td><td>Flutter</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dev.to articles</td><td>1220</td><td>1723</td><td>503</td><td>RN</td></tr>
<tr><td>Gitter active users</td><td>12 662</td><td>1 958</td><td>10 704</td><td>Flutter</td></tr>
<tr><td>Facebook followers</td><td>129.7K</td><td>111K</td><td>18.7K</td><td>Flutter</td></tr>
<tr><td>Twitter followers</td><td>131K</td><td>104.1K</td><td>26.9K</td><td>Flutter</td></tr>
<tr><td>Twitter tweets</td><td>1344</td><td>551</td><td>793</td><td>Flutter</td></tr>
<tr><td>LinkedIn group followers</td><td>13.6K</td><td>23.1K</td><td>9.5K</td><td>RN</td></tr>
<tr><td>Instagram followers</td><td>20.8K</td><td>3369</td><td>20.4K</td><td>Flutter</td></tr>
</table> 


So after look into the table overview we can see that both these communities have very similar size right now.
But Flutter community is expanded through more various social platforms and is more active then React Native community.

React Native is older by 3 years and have a huge source of JavaScript people from React web framework but they are not so active like Flutter which popularity and number of commits in Github have same number per half of time.

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