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Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#81
post #5

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.

Any other evidence? I don't "feel" this, flutter seems to be floundering from what I've seen.

The problem with flutter is you never know when Google will stop investing in the product at any moment when the devs shift their priority.and let it die on the vine.

Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#82
post #27

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This list is && not ||

Wouldn't it have been more concise then to just state that you "needed a framework that supported rendering to a window that isn't owned by the UI being rendered or created by the framework"? I guess now I'm even more confused about what Electron supports... EDIT: Ok I see now, you listed your requirements and just stated that Electron doesn't satisfy them. The construct is confusing to me because the way it's worded…

Yea sorry for being unclear, I meant I need to do all those things. I have evaluated electron in the past and tried to hack the things I need unsuccessfully, but I don't keep up with it so I've edited my comment.

Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#83
post #17

React Native scares me with its dependency webs: http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react-native From my experience, it's really great to work with and definitely saves a ton of work, but the depgraph above fills me with doubt for use in sensitive applications such as in finance or healthcare. For this reason, I've been trying out Flutter or even considering to go back to native apps. Perhaps there's some kind of middle…

I believe this is something that next-gen frameworks worked around:

http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/svelte

http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/solid-js

Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#84
post #17

React Native scares me with its dependency webs: http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react-native From my experience, it's really great to work with and definitely saves a ton of work, but the depgraph above fills me with doubt for use in sensitive applications such as in finance or healthcare. For this reason, I've been trying out Flutter or even considering to go back to native apps. Perhaps there's some kind of middle…

In 3D, it looks like something from out of stranger things.

Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#85
post #10
post #7

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Wasm

With WASM though you will still have to have the app be deployed within browser context. Thus losing hotkeys to the browser etc Or you can build native WASM apps?

No actually. There are projects that can run in a server. The spec doesn’t say anything about web only.

Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#86
post #57

Not sure what the advantage here is over Electron. I know the chromium engine is a resource hog, but the scalability/mix between platforms makes it worth it. Curious to know what your thoughts are folks!

EDITED React native's GUI compiles to native code. Or something like that. It is very different from Electron.

No, React Native still uses Javascript, not “native code”.

It’s different in that it doesn’t use HTML or CSS (which is a major difference, sure).

Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#88
post #17

React Native scares me with its dependency webs: http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react-native From my experience, it's really great to work with and definitely saves a ton of work, but the depgraph above fills me with doubt for use in sensitive applications such as in finance or healthcare. For this reason, I've been trying out Flutter or even considering to go back to native apps. Perhaps there's some kind of middle…

Any large financial services company you're working with is already deploying sensitive apps on Node, for what it's worth.

Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#89
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any other evidence? I don't "feel" this, flutter seems to be floundering from what I've seen.

Same feeling here. still waiting for that killer flutter app to convince me one can actually build a real app with decent latency in flutter

What do you mean by killer exactly?

Splice is now on flutter, including web. I'd say that is a pretty demanding app.

Re: React Native for Windows and Mac

#90
post #14

Excuse my ignorance. What's new about this? I thought React Native was already a thing?

React Native was a thing for native mobile app development. The post is talking about React Native becoming available for native desktop app development.

You mean when this came out 4 years ago? I'm not sure why this is being posted as "News"...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11386595

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11490190

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