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 [![Build Status][travis-image]][travis-url]
 [![npm version][npm-image]][npm-url]
-![gzipped size](https://img.shields.io/badge/gzipped-~48.6k-blue.svg)
 
 [React Native][react-native-url] components and APIs for the Web.
 
@@ -13,17 +12,18 @@ Browser support: Chrome, Firefox, Safari >= 7, IE 10, Edge.
 "React Native for Web" is a project to bring React Native's building blocks and
 touch handling to the Web.
 
-React Native provides a foundational layer to support interoperable,
-zero-configuration React component development. This is missing from React's
-web ecosystem where OSS components rely on inline styles (usually without
-vendor prefixes), or require build tool configuration. This project allows
-components built upon React Native to be run on the Web, and it manages all
-component styling out-of-the-box.
+React Native – unlike React DOM – is a comprehensive UI framework for
+application developers. React Native's components are higher-level building
+blocks than those provided by React DOM. React Native also provides
+platform-agnostic JavaScript APIs for animating and styling components,
+responding to touch events, and interacting with the host environment.
 
-For example, the [`View`](docs/components/View.md) component makes it easy to build
-cross-browser layouts with flexbox, such as stacked and nested boxes with
-margin and padding. And the [`StyleSheet`](docs/guides/style.md) API converts
-styles defined in JavaScript into "Atomic CSS".
+Bringing the React Native APIs and components to the Web allows React Native
+components to be run on the Web platform. But it also solves several problems
+facing the React DOM ecosystem: no framework-level animation or styling
+solution; difficulty sharing and composing UI components (without pulling in
+their build or runtime dependencies); and the lack of high-level base
+components.
 
 ## Quick start
 
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+module.exports = require('./dist/core')
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 }
 ```
 
+The `react-native-web` package also includes a `core` module that exports only
+`ReactNative`, `Image`, `StyleSheet`, `Text`, `TextInput`, and `View`.
+
+```js
+// webpack.config.js
+
+module.exports = {
+  // ...other configuration
+  resolve: {
+    alias: {
+      'react-native': 'react-native-web/core'
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
 ## Client-side rendering
 
 Rendering without using the `AppRegistry`:
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+import './modules/injectResponderEventPlugin'
+
+import findNodeHandle from './modules/findNodeHandle'
+import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
+import ReactDOMServer from 'react-dom/server'
+import StyleSheet from './apis/StyleSheet'
+import Image from './components/Image'
+import Text from './components/Text'
+import TextInput from './components/TextInput'
+import View from './components/View'
+
+const ReactNativeCore = {
+  findNodeHandle,
+  render: ReactDOM.render,
+  renderToStaticMarkup: ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup,
+  renderToString: ReactDOMServer.renderToString,
+  unmountComponentAtNode: ReactDOM.unmountComponentAtNode,
+  StyleSheet,
+  Image,
+  Text,
+  TextInput,
+  View
+}
+
+module.exports = ReactNativeCore