react/yoga

Health v2 · maintenance only

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18889 stars · 1555 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Yoga is an embeddable, high-performance flexbox layout engine written in C++ with a public C API and bindings for multiple languages. It computes the size and position of boxes using a familiar subset of CSS, and powers UI frameworks like React Native.

Use cases

• compute flexbox layout for a native UI framework
• share layout code between native platforms and the browser
• embed a CSS flexbox layout engine in a C++ application
• calculate element positions without a browser rendering engine
• build a custom UI toolkit with web-standard layout

When to choose

• you need fast, embeddable flexbox layout without a full UI framework
• you want consistent layout behavior across web and native platforms
• you need layout computation in C++, Java, JavaScript, or other languages via bindings

When to avoid

• you need a complete UI framework with drawing and interaction
• you need full CSS support beyond the Flexbox subset
• you only target the browser, where native CSS layout suffices

Facets

library · maturity active

ui-components graphics cross-platform frontend mobile-development web-development cpp cross-platform python jvm flexbox layout-engine css react-native bindings nodejs

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