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Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

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Re: Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

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Is there a reason that the web is not a target of react native?

It seems somewhat insane to have a cross platform approach and leave out the biggest platform of all, the web.

Or - looking at it the other way round - what approaches are there to take a working pwa website and turn it into an app? What advantages over such an approach can react native bring to the table?

Re: Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

#13
Anyone know where React Native stands in modern development - especially when compared to Flutter and the upcoming Compose.

All the native frameworks are also React inspired.

I personally love the work done by Airbnb for its Android MvRx framework. Again, React inspired

Re: Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

#14

Honestly I think the future of mobile will just be... mobile websites. What's missing until regular websites have parity with mobile apps in functionality? - Accelerometer and all sensor support (some of these are already supported on various browsers on various OSes) - Background support - Bluetooth - WiFi - Better notifications - etc. Sure there will always be a need for native, but 99% of apps don't need any of th…

Look at your most used apps - none of them are "responsive pages". That should tell you something. Folks who have tried responsive pages haven't done that well.

I am curious - what is the most popular responsive webpage on iphone would people say? I'd like to check out the current leader in this space.

Re: Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

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post #2

the example react native code they give in this image would error out: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0779/4361/files/ReactJSvsR... Text has to be in a

You cannot see the imports.

import {Text as View} from 'react-native';

All good!

Re: Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

#16
post #12

Is there a reason that the web is not a target of react native? It seems somewhat insane to have a cross platform approach and leave out the biggest platform of all, the web. Or - looking at it the other way round - what approaches are there to take a working pwa website and turn it into an app? What advantages over such an approach can react native bring to the table?

react-native-web exists: https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web

Re: Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

#17

Honestly I think the future of mobile will just be... mobile websites. What's missing until regular websites have parity with mobile apps in functionality? - Accelerometer and all sensor support (some of these are already supported on various browsers on various OSes) - Background support - Bluetooth - WiFi - Better notifications - etc. Sure there will always be a need for native, but 99% of apps don't need any of th…

The fact that Facebook themselves will never be able to replace their native iOS and Android apps with RN implementations says it all imo.

Re: Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

#18

Honestly I think the future of mobile will just be... mobile websites. What's missing until regular websites have parity with mobile apps in functionality? - Accelerometer and all sensor support (some of these are already supported on various browsers on various OSes) - Background support - Bluetooth - WiFi - Better notifications - etc. Sure there will always be a need for native, but 99% of apps don't need any of th…

Look at your most used apps - none of them are "responsive pages". That should tell you something. Folks who have tried responsive pages haven't done that well. I am curious - what is the most popular responsive webpage on iphone would people say? I'd like to check out the current leader in this space.

Google?

Re: Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

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post #12

Is there a reason that the web is not a target of react native? It seems somewhat insane to have a cross platform approach and leave out the biggest platform of all, the web. Or - looking at it the other way round - what approaches are there to take a working pwa website and turn it into an app? What advantages over such an approach can react native bring to the table?

Maybe you've heard of ReactJS?

Re: Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

#20

Honestly I think the future of mobile will just be... mobile websites. What's missing until regular websites have parity with mobile apps in functionality? - Accelerometer and all sensor support (some of these are already supported on various browsers on various OSes) - Background support - Bluetooth - WiFi - Better notifications - etc. Sure there will always be a need for native, but 99% of apps don't need any of th…

Look at your most used apps - none of them are "responsive pages". That should tell you something. Folks who have tried responsive pages haven't done that well. I am curious - what is the most popular responsive webpage on iphone would people say? I'd like to check out the current leader in this space.

I use Facebook's as I don't want Facebook's grubby hands using private APIs on my phone to get every bit of data they can. At least the browser limits them.
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