Deco

Deco is an integrated development environment focused on building React Native applications. It provides a visual workflow that lets designers and engineers collaborate on UI components, preview changes in real time, and generate the underlying code needed for mobile apps. The tool runs on macOS and is offered as a free, open‑source project after the original team joined Airbnb.

The IDE is aimed at developers who build cross‑platform mobile apps with React Native, as well as designers who want to see their mockups translated directly into functional components. By combining design‑centric editing with code generation, it helps streamline the handoff between design and implementation.

What sets Deco apart is its origin as a bridge between design and engineering teams, and its continuation as an open‑source project after the partnership with Airbnb. The source code is publicly available, allowing the community to maintain and extend the IDE for React Native development on macOS.