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Developing Our First iOS App with React Native

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Re: Developing Our First iOS App with React Native

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Post by ianlevesque »

Apocryphon wrote: post #8

I'm sure this observation was probably made tens of thousands of times before, but- is the React Native and frameworks like it the beginning of the end of the "native vs. mobile web" debate? A synthesis of both approaches?

I don't think so. I've participated in enough native / mobile web flamewars to last a lifetime, but the main argument this doesn't resolve in any way is the question of freedom. A react native app is still subject to Apple's App Review, or can be removed on a whim by Google (remember the ad blockers recently?). Some people have a real problem with that.

Re: Developing Our First iOS App with React Native

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Post by Apocryphon »

trollied wrote: post #9

Still, how do you get hired as a lead mobile dev without having and native platform skills? The entire development world has gone tits-up in the last 10 years. It's all about nonsense package management for JavaScript libraries (why can't I just include a .js off a cdn? npm? What the actual fuck?), and an endless stream of disparate components which are often ill-supported, or just plain ditched after they've had the…

Isn't the advancement of computer science towards further abstraction?

Re: Developing Our First iOS App with React Native

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Post by tomtang2 »

Apocryphon wrote: post #8

I'm sure this observation was probably made tens of thousands of times before, but- is the React Native and frameworks like it the beginning of the end of the "native vs. mobile web" debate? A synthesis of both approaches?

I think so. Reducing the language/framework barrier to mobile development definitely makes makes arguments for mobile web weaker. If you have a lot of mobile users and you want them to have a really good experience, going the React Native route makes a lot of sense.

Re: Developing Our First iOS App with React Native

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Post by watty »

trollied wrote: post #9

Still, how do you get hired as a lead mobile dev without having and native platform skills? The entire development world has gone tits-up in the last 10 years. It's all about nonsense package management for JavaScript libraries (why can't I just include a .js off a cdn? npm? What the actual fuck?), and an endless stream of disparate components which are often ill-supported, or just plain ditched after they've had the…

The world is changing. Our industry is changing every day, week, and year. Developers before you laughed at your high level C while they were using punch cards.

The successful ones realize this and adapt.

Re: Developing Our First iOS App with React Native

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Post by ianlevesque »

Smudge wrote: post #6

> Learn once, write anywhere What's most amazing to me about React Native was how quickly we were able to go from idea to product (~3 months working only part-time) using our existing knowledge as web developers. We did have to write a few lines of Objective-C here and there, but for the most part all of the views and interactions fell together the same way a webapp would.

After a while apps are just apps, and the languages all feel the same.

Re: Developing Our First iOS App with React Native

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Post by ethanbond »

trollied wrote: post #9

Still, how do you get hired as a lead mobile dev without having and native platform skills? The entire development world has gone tits-up in the last 10 years. It's all about nonsense package management for JavaScript libraries (why can't I just include a .js off a cdn? npm? What the actual fuck?), and an endless stream of disparate components which are often ill-supported, or just plain ditched after they've had the…

Wait, but what about designing the chips to run your CPU? Or synthesizing the silicon to print your chip onto? You surely know how to mine for the precursor elements for solder, too, right?

Re: Developing Our First iOS App with React Native

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Post by tomtang2 »

latishsehgal wrote: post #10
epberry wrote: post #3

> Not knowing Objective C or Swift I think this is a key phrase here. I'm writing a RN Android app without knowing much about Java.

Have you run into any gotchas? I am thinking of doing the same thing for a simple app.

There were definitely some head scratchers along the way, I think I address a few of them in this post but I plan to write a few more posts that show how we tackled some issues in more detail so keep an eye out for that.

Re: Developing Our First iOS App with React Native

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Post by kin »

Apocryphon wrote: post #8

I'm sure this observation was probably made tens of thousands of times before, but- is the React Native and frameworks like it the beginning of the end of the "native vs. mobile web" debate? A synthesis of both approaches?

What I'm betting on is the mobile web browser. I know going HTML5 on mobile has failed in the past, but the future can still come. On desktops, desktop apps ruled until web apps became super powerful. I'm betting on the same fate for mobile web apps.

Re: Developing Our First iOS App with React Native

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Post by mostafaberg »

Why is this on the top of HN ? Honestly, this is a bad thing, not a thing to show off.

To quote the author: "We're web developers, not iOS developers." EXACTLY, don't bring your web tech into native platforms, learn to do it the right way or just hire someone who knows how to do it.

Seeing things like that creeping into becoming a norm makes me cringe

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