# decosoftware/deco-ide

The React Native IDE

Repository: https://github.com/decosoftware/deco-ide
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/deco-ide
Homepage: https://www.decosoftware.com/
Language: JavaScript
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2019-12-25T13:20:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3758, "days_push": 2443, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5808, forks 302 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:29.881783+00:00)

## What it is
Deco IDE is an all-in-one desktop IDE for building React Native applications, built on Electron for macOS. It offers project scaffolding, drag-and-drop components, and a graphical property inspector for tweaking UI code.

## Use cases
- build react native apps without manual setup
- visually edit react native component properties
- scaffold react native project files and boilerplate
- drop ready-made ui components into react native code
- ide for react native development on mac

## When to choose
- you want a visual, low-setup React Native editor on macOS
- you prefer graphical property editing over hand-writing styles
- you need quick scaffolding for new React Native projects

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained tool - development stopped after the team joined Airbnb in 2017
- you develop on Linux or Windows - only macOS is supported
- you want support for modern React Native versions or current tooling

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: editor, developer-tools, gui
- domain: mobile-development, developer-tools, frontend
- platform: -
- tags: react-native, ide, electron-app, discontinued, property-inspector, component-scaffolding, macos, electron, desktop, javascript

## Member repositories
- decosoftware/deco-ide (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:29.881783+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:52:37.921889+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/decosoftware/deco-ide (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:29.881783+00:00, sha a2025dfc51b2)
  - homepage: https://www.decosoftware.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:48:04.587072+00:00, sha 0eff90bb43bc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.