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Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#21
Is anyone able to provide a map of modern frameworks? With React-native, React-redux, Angular, Vue and probably a bunch of others.

I'm really not sure what's relevant now and what was relevant 6 months ago. I'm genuinely curious, but it's pretty difficult to grasp and no framework homepage is going to tell you "Don't use me, I'm about to be a dead project!" and every developer will tell you their preferred framework is the best framework.

Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#22
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I'd love to abandon my C/C++ UI frameworks for React, but I need - consistent rendering/support across multiple platforms and versions - multiple windows - rendering to a window that isn't owned by the UI being rendered or created by the framework Can I do that all in React native? Edit: don't need to bring up electron.

Electron can't do multiple windows or consistent rendering? Legit question, I just started using Electron, hadn't heard of the former and thought the latter was a selling point because all platforms wrapped Electron's Chrome.

Electron supports multiple windows, but it ends up being annoying to do because each window runs in its own process. If your app has any kind of central state that's shared between windows, you end up copying data between processes frequently, which can be slow.

Rendering consistency is generally pretty good; I haven't run into any issues with that.

Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#26
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Flutter seems to be gaining ground on React Native. And they also have web and desktop ports. Recently flutter overtook react native on Google trends.

Particularly outside of the US, in my experience. Having spent considerable time in React, RN, and Flutter the difference is remarkable. Unless devs are big fans of JS, Flutter is a compelling alternative [1].

1: https://blog.benroux.me/us-devs-are-sleeping-on-flutter/

Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#27
post #6

I'd love to abandon my C/C++ UI frameworks for React, but I need - consistent rendering/support across multiple platforms and versions - multiple windows - rendering to a window that isn't owned by the UI being rendered or created by the framework Can I do that all in React native? Edit: don't need to bring up electron.

Electron can't do multiple windows or consistent rendering? Legit question, I just started using Electron, hadn't heard of the former and thought the latter was a selling point because all platforms wrapped Electron's Chrome.

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Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#29

Is anyone able to provide a map of modern frameworks? With React-native, React-redux, Angular, Vue and probably a bunch of others. I'm really not sure what's relevant now and what was relevant 6 months ago. I'm genuinely curious, but it's pretty difficult to grasp and no framework homepage is going to tell you "Don't use me, I'm about to be a dead project!" and every developer will tell you their preferred framework…

I can provide you with a short video clip of spaghetti falling through the air, it's functionally equivalent

Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#30
post #6

I'd love to abandon my C/C++ UI frameworks for React, but I need - consistent rendering/support across multiple platforms and versions - multiple windows - rendering to a window that isn't owned by the UI being rendered or created by the framework Can I do that all in React native? Edit: don't need to bring up electron.

This is electron by another name, Microsoft is forcing us into a web sandbox.

If electron is Chrome and Edge is Chrome and Microsoft uses Edge for this - then its all chrome in all directions. Native is much faster and more powerful - WE MUST RESIST!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p6tvs-qjpA

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