Today we are launching react-instantsearch, a new library to build search interfaces with Algolia in React and React native. This new way of implementing Algolia brings ideas that go beyond the creation of widgets using React – we think they will fundamentally influence the way the JS community builds UI libraries! A year ago we launched instantsearch.js, which has more than 1000 stars on github and 1500 users. It tackled issues like lack of packaged options for search UX patterns and cumbersome mapping of concepts from the search realm to the UI realm. The new library react-instantsearch is a decoupling of search logic from rendering, providing widgets with a dual API that exposes minimal and external APIs. This allows developers to customize search settings while using ready-to-use widgets with limited options for UI tweaks, catering both beginner and experienced users. The library also aims to provide a glimpse of the future for service-based UI's by channeling the capabilities of the search into abstract widgets.