I gather from the slip-up near the end of the Microsoft talk that React Native for Windows isn't here yet, but it's coming. But I'm guessing that will only be for Universal Windows Platform (i.e. mobile and tablet-style) apps, not Win32 desktop applications.
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#72Is there any benefit in learning React Native since I have to write for both Android and iOS platform?
Code reuse - I have an dual iOS/Android React Native app and over 90% of the codebase are generic components. Most of the difference are simply stylesheets, for platform-specific UX. Besides that, there's the incalculable benefit of being able to use the same mental model (to say nothing of programming language) when developing, especially when designing UI components and animations. Even if you had equal skill with…
And having your project live-reload on physical Android and iPhone devices at the same time is so cool!
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#73I'm crossing my fingers for the "one more thing" moment when they will announce that nuclide for React is now available, but it doesn't look likely.
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#74I'm more and more convinced that Facebook is reinventing Adobe Flex. Not sure whether this is good or bad.
A big difference is that Facebook is using React in their own products. I don't think they will be as happy to dump the whole thing as soon as there is a slight change in winds, like Adobe did with Flex.
Flex, although still alive thanks to the efforts of a group of unsung heroes, is not a platform on which I would build anything new.
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#75Is there any benefit in learning React Native since I have to write for both Android and iOS platform?
The mantra is learn once, write everywhere.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
So your answer is to require pulling in an entire view library just to make a simple rich text editor work? Also, I'm disheartened by the simple, anonymous down votes my comments are receiving rather than actual rebuttals. At least you had the decency to respond.
You are being downvoted for fairly obvious reasons, so I think most people don't see the need to tell you why: First, you added a snarky, negative comment as the first response to someone open-sourcing a new library. There's no need for this, especially when spicyj is (as far as I've seen) an extremely gracious open-sourcer. Your comment's core complaint, about library lock-in, was actually a valid complaint, and som…
You're absolutely right. FWIW, Draft.js looks awesome and I should have expressed my concerns in a more productive way. Thanks for responding.
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#77I'm crossing my fingers for the "one more thing" moment when they will announce that nuclide for React is now available, but it doesn't look likely.
I thought nuclide was released several months ago.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's beyond amazing imo. Tricky in some areas but I just launched a pretty complex app in 4 months with 100% attention given to both android + ios, and it was just 1.5 developers (averaged over time).
Would you mind sharing a link to the app? I haven't seen (that I'm aware of) many apps using React Native.
Our team threw this together in a couple weekends when we were test driving react native: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/emergency-kittens-adorable/i...
The ability to reuse code is very real, even sharing a lot with a web react app since most state/business logic is in some flux implementation.
The pain points (documentation, build process, etc.) are real, too, but things I can forgive for now due to its newness and its very strong foundation.
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#79Wow the comments in here are awful. How about some constructive discussions folks? If you're not impressed by React or don't think it's useful, what, if anything, can we say or show you to convince you otherwise? I'm assuming that's what you're here - for knowledge - otherwise, why are you here? I'm glad there have been no major announcements. This isn't an Apple keynote. We should want our tools to be predictable, s…
"I'm assuming that's what you're here - for knowledge - otherwise, why are you here?"
To look cool to other developers by shitting all over something.
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#80Wow the comments in here are awful. How about some constructive discussions folks? If you're not impressed by React or don't think it's useful, what, if anything, can we say or show you to convince you otherwise? I'm assuming that's what you're here - for knowledge - otherwise, why are you here? I'm glad there have been no major announcements. This isn't an Apple keynote. We should want our tools to be predictable, s…
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