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https://www.adobe.com/products/sketch.html
In fairness to Sketch (Bohemian Coding), they existed first before Photoshop Sketch was released.
Absolutely. Naming is hard.
Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)
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Re: Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)
#73Quick question for the creators: Isn't updating apps without running them through Apple against their TOS?
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#74Expo is awesome and Sketch looks like the best way to get started. Great work!
In my opinion Expo and GraphQL is a power combo and it so happens that we just released a new cli to generate hosted GraphQL apis (also on the frontpage) so that would be a really easy way to get started.
Re: Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)
#75Quick question for the creators: Isn't updating apps without running them through Apple against their TOS?
Not the way Expo, Microsoft Code Push, and myriad other tools work that have been doing it for years now. In short, updating the js is not against the tos. No new native code is updated over the wire.
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#76Ah, so you have an app that links to the "fiddle" and downloads the RN JS bundle and runs it for you, instead of an emulator. Nice! I'm still trying to figure out whether it is possible to run RN directly in the browser using an interpreter instead of an emulator, along with something like emscripten (might have to run an emscripten-compiled JVM, too haha). Sounds really tricky, for one thing, any Android or iOS SDK…
I've written a little game in React Native, and I was really surprised when react-native-web just worked almost out of the box. If you don't have many native libraries, then it's really easy to write an app that works in a browser.
Definitely! http://www.reactnativeexpress.com/ uses it and it works really well for them.
Re: Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)
#77I imagine an integration with Appetize[1] would be very useful, as well as an opening for a possible revenue stream. Being able to build an RN app and then run it right in the browser removes another barrier for sharing RN code easily. [1] https://appetize.io/
That's how the original React Native Playground from the same people (Expo) worked. Google react native playground and go try it today. It's slow with appetize. But if they are still using it for sharing links to ur creation, they are still using it and have found the perfect use case: linked demos. But it would never be fast enough for updates as u type.
Re: Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)
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We think the products are so different that people won't get confused but if it turns out to be a problem, we'll figure something out. Sketch the design tool is great. We use it.
My advice, change it sooner rather than later.
I came here to say this also. As a dev & designer, sketch is a technical term like all the other technologies you refer to. I'm having global name space conflict issues as I attempt to pass your sales copy. I'd suggest you quickly change this, as currently a poor naming choice is overriding your others good work. Might give you a chance to hit the front page again too.
Re: Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)
#79For anyone who does not understand why it always shows a QR code and a "Download from app store" buttons, there is a close button on top right corner to close that modal. Not sure it was a great idea to always show that modal, it took me a while to figure out that I can close it, I thought it's an ios app...
We show the QRCode because you need to scan it and open on the phone to be able to view it. Yeah, we will change the styles to make it more obvious that it's modal. Sorry for the confusion.
I totally disagree with the previous commenter. The real wow with your app comes from installing it, and the barrier is fairly low. Granted it crashed somewhere in the setup between installing expo and sketch, but wow the real time updates on the phone are pretty mind blowing. I say stick with it and don't listen to everything everybody says =).
Re: Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)
#80I really don't understand how this product can be called Sketch in good conscience. Sketch is already a disruptive gorgeous product that has changed ux and digital design. It should be respected and given room to breathe. Change the name of your product.
We think the products are so different that people won't get confused but if it turns out to be a problem, we'll figure something out. Sketch the design tool is great. We use it.
Why not just call it React Native Playground? or Expo Playground.