I did checked pulse for those on github on regular bases. Change to monthly and notice out of 450commits more than 170 commits are by flutter-engine-autoroll bot just auto updating some packages, then next second user did ~30commits, then you have few another flutter bots with some commits. Then go compare with react native.
You are cherry picking things here. If this is some ideological thing for you I’m really not interested in having that conversation.
The health of the two projects genuinely isn’t close at all. Comparing what they are actually both shipping in terms of features in the last year is two very very different stories.
I'm neither flutter nor react native developer just native mobile dev but evaluating both techs so don't have stake in the game right now. Just showing to other so they can make their own judgement:
If I am remembering correctly the headcount on the Futter team literally changed by a single person.
Here are some actual real life numbers you can use if you want to gauge the health of the two projects:
1. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pulse
2. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pulse
Specifically Flutter’s 108 merged pull requests to React Native’s 1 and Flutter’s 330 closed issues to React Native’s 18.
Also note that this doesn’t even include their rendering engine which had another 90+ closed pull requests https://github.com/flutter/engine/pulse
The truth of the matter is that Flutter is actually is far better shape both from a technical and open source perspective.