React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
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React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
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Re: React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
#2Also see: https://ericroz.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/f8-app-on-windows-1...
> Excluding all the work on core and third party module parity, and store preparation, there was certainly less than 1 week of 1 developers time dedicated to platform customization and style tweaks in JavaScript.
This is huge! Fantastic work everyone.
Re: React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
#3This is a huge game changer. We have OS X support with React Native Desktop [0], so that means only Linux support is missing!
I've wondered why we haven't seen a React Native Qt, React Native Gtk+, or React Native Elementary yet. But I guess those communities just aren't very interested in what JS people are up to.
Re: React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
#4I am on the team at Microsoft that helped bring UWP to React Native. If there are questions, feel free to AMA.
PS. Many thanks to the Facebook team for building a great platform in React Native and their critical help in helping us bring Windows to the platform.
Re: React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
#5This was somewhat expected after Microsoft released a first-party React Native plugin for their Visual Studio Code IDE a couple weeks ago:
Re: React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
#6I am on the team at Microsoft that helped bring UWP to React Native. If there are questions, feel free to AMA. PS. Many thanks to the Facebook team for building a great platform in React Native and their critical help in helping us bring Windows to the platform.
Currently, it's a fork. Do you have plans to merge it in the main react-native repo? When?
Re: React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
#7I am on the team at Microsoft that helped bring UWP to React Native. If there are questions, feel free to AMA. PS. Many thanks to the Facebook team for building a great platform in React Native and their critical help in helping us bring Windows to the platform.
Why does this generate C# instead of C++?
Re: React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
#8I am on the team at Microsoft that helped bring UWP to React Native. If there are questions, feel free to AMA. PS. Many thanks to the Facebook team for building a great platform in React Native and their critical help in helping us bring Windows to the platform.
Currently, it's a fork. Do you have plans to merge it in the main react-native repo? When?
We are working on Facebook on the best long term strategy for maintaining UWP support. Our fork is only to add the ReactWindows directory and to otherwise track master in the process.
Re: React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
#9I am on the team at Microsoft that helped bring UWP to React Native. If there are questions, feel free to AMA. PS. Many thanks to the Facebook team for building a great platform in React Native and their critical help in helping us bring Windows to the platform.
Why does this generate C# instead of C++?
Why not? Seems like a reasonable thing to do. Is there a specific reason it should be C++?
Re: React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
#10This is a huge game changer. We have OS X support with React Native Desktop [0], so that means only Linux support is missing! I've wondered why we haven't seen a React Native Qt, React Native Gtk+, or React Native Elementary yet. But I guess those communities just aren't very interested in what JS people are up to. [0] https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-desktop
The react-native-desktop author is working on it [1].