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    lynx-family

    lynx-family/lynx

    Empower the Web community and invite more to build across platforms.

    mobile
    cross-platform
    lynx
    lynxjs
    C++
    Apache-2.0
    15.2K stars
    565 forks
    15.2K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 3, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 6 days ago, with 96 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #93 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 7, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Empowers developers to create native user interfaces for mobile and web from a single codebase using web technologies.
    • Enables write-once, render-anywhere capability with native performance and pixel-perfect consistency across platforms.
    • Use for building cross-platform mobile apps that leverage existing web skills like CSS and React.
    • Use for integrating high-performance native UI rendering into existing Android and iOS applications.
    • Use for developing scalable, multithreaded UI engines that require instant launch and smooth responsiveness.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Empower the web community and invite more to build across platforms

    Lynx is a family of open-source technologies empowering developers to use their existing web skills to create truly native UIs for both mobile and web from a single codebase, featuring performance at scale and velocity.

    This repository contains the core engine of Lynx. For other repositories in the Lynx family, visit our org homepage.

    Excerpt from the lynx-family/lynx README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    565+24

    Open issues

    1.3K+310

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