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Re: Deco Software – React Native IDE

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Post by mwcampbell »

api wrote: post #77

You should add support for desktop too, like: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-desktop

Why not just use browser-based React inside a wrapper like Electron to build desktop apps? Is performance much better when using a desktop implementation of React Native?

Re: Deco Software – React Native IDE

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Post by iLoch »

daverecycles wrote: post #14
cbrevik wrote: post #12

What exactly constitutes the Deco package registry? Will I need to submit my React Native libraries to a new registry? Or are you working with something like http://js.coach (formerly react.parts)?

For the beta, we currently have our own registry, but we are looking into ways to integrate with others.

There are plenty of front ends for NPM so hopefully you guys can figure out something for this!

Re: Deco Software – React Native IDE

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Post by iLoch »

This is interesting, definitely. One thing people should be aware of if they're new to the React Native environment is that this technology comes built in. It is a big reason why React Native is such a huge success so far. You don't need an IDE and switching to one instead of using your own tools seems like a pretty big negative to me.

Tools such as rnpm allow for automated installation of new extensions (all of which are available on npm).

Extension installation is as simple as:

rnpm install react-native-video

Deployment is now as simple as:

react-native run-android react-native run-ios

No XCode, no Android Studio, etc. and you get live reloading, Chrome debugging, etc.

To me this is an ideal workflow, but others may disagree. Some may choose to build IDEs such as this on top of the existing architecture, that's cool too. I just want people who are starting out to be aware that there isn't much new here in terms of work flow efficiency.

Re: Deco Software – React Native IDE

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Post by frozenport »

iLoch wrote: post #96
frozenport wrote: post #85

Android is over 70% of the market.

Pretty easy when pretty much anything with any version of Android OS on it constitutes as "Android". For comparison, as of February 8th, 94% of all iOS devices are on iOS 8 or later, with 82% of those on iOS 9.

Since Android 2.3, I haven't had much trouble sharing code across versions.

Re: Deco Software – React Native IDE

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Post by iLoch »

frozenport wrote: post #98
iLoch wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty easy when pretty much anything with any version of Android OS on it constitutes as "Android". For comparison, as of February 8th, 94% of all iOS devices are on iOS 8 or later, with 82% of those on iOS 9.

Since Android 2.3, I haven't had much trouble sharing code across versions.

Performance is the major problem. Getting the code to run isn't really an issue anymore.

Re: Deco Software – React Native IDE

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Post by narrowrail »

iLoch wrote: post #97

This is interesting, definitely. One thing people should be aware of if they're new to the React Native environment is that this technology comes built in. It is a big reason why React Native is such a huge success so far. You don't need an IDE and switching to one instead of using your own tools seems like a pretty big negative to me. Tools such as rnpm allow for automated installation of new extensions (all of whic…

>It is a big reason why React Native is such a huge success so far. You don't need an IDE...

Sorry if this a stupid question, but is this true if one is also targeting electron for the 'big 3' desktops for the HN crowd (rather than just mobile OSs)?

Edit: Clarifications made.

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