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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.
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.
Windows Forms was released on 2002 and is still supported by Microsoft. How long do you think Flutter will be supported by Google? For dev technology, Microsoft has a well-deserved reputation for supporting products for a long time.
I am curious about how often this sentiment gets brought up about Go or Kubernetes.
I swear to gosh Facebook, if you tempt my employer into making me write Windows apps...
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Wow, that React Native dep graph is crazy! But as I browse it, most of the dependencies seem to be build-time, not runtime dependencies (i.e. it seems like most of them are related to Babel). The React comparison doesn't include dev dependencies. While react-native does have more dependencies than vanilla react, on first glance the list doesn't seem too crazy https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/packa…
The package.json file hasn't been remotely close to representative of the actual dependency count of a JS project for years.
What would be the benefit over electron?
I think the killer feature here is natively targeting Windows AND macOS simultaneously. The only cross-platform alternatives that I've seen in the ecosystem use either web or Gtk in the frontend, and both of these have a distinctly non-native feel to them.
I think the killer feature here is natively targeting Windows AND macOS simultaneously. The only cross-platform alternatives that I've seen in the ecosystem use either web or Gtk in the frontend, and both of these have a distinctly non-native feel to them.
I wonder if React Native can do all of this officially, but I suppose that's not their prerogative, given that RN is mostly used by Facebook for apps and these other platform efforts are by third parties, like Microsoft here.
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…
There are a bunch of others that are less popular such as Ember, Svelte, and Inferno which are also decent in their own right, but the ecosystem of libraries around them is smaller.
The most important libraries to know about in the React ecosystem are React-Router for routing, and either Redux or MobX for state management. There are other options, and for small apps you could get away without a state management library, but these are the mainstream options. I'm not super-up on the Angular/Vue ecosystems, but I believe they're more integrated (e.g. they provide more first-party libraries).
Almost everyone who is using these frameworks is also using either Babel or TypeScript together with Webpack for bundling. There are other options for bundling such as Parcel and Rollup, and again it is possible to get away without bundling or transpiling if you really want to, but Webpack is still the mainstream option for applications (Rollup is well-suited to libraries).
React-native is a different beast. It's a cross-platform mobile (and now desktop) framework rather than a web-based one. It uses React executed in a JavaScript VM to control rendering, but it renders native mobile UI toolkits. There are similar projects for Vue and Angular, but unlike the web versions which are competitive with React, they are nowhere near as mature. React-native's real competition for cross-platform mobile development is Flutter. Flutter is written using that Dart language, and takes a different to React-Native. Rather than compiling down to native UI widgets, it custom-renders everything. This makes it more reliable and consistent across platforms, but also more limited in what you can because you can't hook into the existing ecosystem of native ios/android libraries nearly so easily.
My subjective view on this is that React-Native is just about on the cusp of reaching maturity, while Flutter doesn't quite seem to have enough momentum to reach the mainstream. Although I'd love to be proven wrong on that one.