WalmartLabs opensources its tool for bringing React Native to mobile apps

Post by toephu2 » Sun, Oct 01, 2017, 9:08 PM UTC

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It's this assumption that "same experience on all platforms" (aka "branding") is desirable to "native experience on all platforms". Facebook wants facebook to feel like facebook whether you're on an iPhone or an Android or your PC. Same with Chrome - it eschews native platform UI on all devices in favor of looking the same everywhere. Good UI - by definition - doesn't get in your way. But "good UI" may not be "good m…

I use OS X (laptop), Windows (VM), Android (phone), and iOS (iPad). It's not at all unusual for me to have apps installed on at least three of those platforms, and I really appreciate it when the UI is the same across platforms.

Post by mrmondo » Sun, Oct 01, 2017, 9:57 PM UTC

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Absolutely agree, I avoid react / JavaScript ‘apps’ at all cost, they perform poorly, use excessive resources and seem to discourage an engineering mindset when writing code.

Out of curiousity, how are you able to detect React Native apps so you can avoid them? Facebook introduced React Native to their main app months before anyone noticed. Airbnb also was using it for a while before they publicly announced the fact.

Post by missbit » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 12:53 PM UTC

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Why a company the size of Walmart does this cross platform crap is beyond me. Do they not have the resources to actually write real native apps in actual Swift? Why is it desirable to code to the the worst common denominators for devices? Cross platform is just lazy. And React “Native” is inferior to actual native.

Absolutely agree, I avoid react / JavaScript ‘apps’ at all cost, they perform poorly, use excessive resources and seem to discourage an engineering mindset when writing code.

Post by on_and_off » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 6:49 AM UTC

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>Ultimately the declarative way of writing apps is objectively better and more predictable than the old mutable way :) how has this anything to do with RN ? You can write declarative codebases in swift or kotlin, no need for RN to achieve this.

I never coded native apps so forget my ignorance but how would you build an UI declaratively with swift? The turorial shows very imperative/mutative code indeed: @IBAction func setDefaultLabelText(_ sender: UIButton) { mealNameLabel.text = "Default Text" }