Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
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Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#2I am using TamaGUI in the last months and it has been a dream to use. It's really nice to be able to use the same code on mobile and web.
For me it feels a bit like using Tailwind CSS, but that works out of the box on all the platforms that I love. I have been active and asking questions on their Discord and people were helpful, the community seems to be good. Seems to be a pretty young project, but very interesting.
Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#3I have been using different UI toolkits over the past ~13 years of my professional front-end development career. Probably starting with Bootstrap.
Tamagui has a really elegant combination of a Styling system (the mechanics of applying styles to the underlying systems), a Theming system (the way sizes/colors are passed down within different contexts of the UI), and a Component system (high level components that are ready to use out of the box). In my opinion, this is where Tamagui shines above the competition- each abstraction effectively builds upon the underlying ones, and it gives you a bunch of ready-to-use components so you can start building quickly and worry about the details later. Way better than the "just copy and paste" model of Tailwind which forces you to maintain components and manually create a consistent UI for your app.
We are using Tamagui for our open source electron app + web site. We hope to have a React Native app in the future, so we are strongly opposed to any solution that is overly tied to CSS. If you want to see an example (real-world, messy) codebase that uses Tamagui, please take a look here: https://github.com/MintterHypermedia/mintter/tree/main/front...
The biggest downside, in my experience, is the heavy/complicated/fragile setup process of Tamagui. Although this is typical of any TS monorepo. If you struggle to integrate Tamagui in your codebase, I encourage you to power through the setup phase- the payoff is totally worth it!
Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#4I have been using different UI toolkits over the past ~13 years of my professional front-end development career. Probably starting with Bootstrap. Tamagui has a really elegant combination of a Styling system (the mechanics of applying styles to the underlying systems), a Theming system (the way sizes/colors are passed down within different contexts of the UI), and a Component system (high level components that are re…
I remember trying to use react native web to unify mobile and web back in the day and I ended up using complex animation libraries for things that CSS could do in just one or two lines. Is Tamagui any better in that regard?
Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#5I am using TamaGUI in the last months and it has been a dream to use. It's really nice to be able to use the same code on mobile and web. For me it feels a bit like using Tailwind CSS, but that works out of the box on all the platforms that I love. I have been active and asking questions on their Discord and people were helpful, the community seems to be good. Seems to be a pretty young project, but very interesting.
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Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#6I have been using different UI toolkits over the past ~13 years of my professional front-end development career. Probably starting with Bootstrap. Tamagui has a really elegant combination of a Styling system (the mechanics of applying styles to the underlying systems), a Theming system (the way sizes/colors are passed down within different contexts of the UI), and a Component system (high level components that are re…
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Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#7I really like some of the approaches that Tamagui has taken with regard to writing Layout and utility classes ( like HSTACK, VSTACK etc) . Maybe because it leverages react-native. Is there any way I can use it on non-react projects?
Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#8I've been trying out tamagui and for what it's worth, it's been a joy. The dev is sometimes a bit slow to respond to some issues, but he's chugging along and doing a lot of work for a single person. I really like the theming system and the abstractions, but I hope it gains more traction and more of a team working on it so you can be sure it'll keep being maintained.
The starter with nextjs/expo is sooo complicated though. I know it's not tamagui's fault, but the js ecosystem is a terrible mess. Bundlers/monorepo managers/package managers all come together to build a tower so tricky it feels like it will fall at any moment. And that's coming from someone _relatively_ used to it. It's wild to me that this is the best we can do at the browser, I've come to the conclusion that the ecosystem is not fixable. I hope WebIDL and GC in wasm take off and give us more options in the long run.
Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#9I've been trying out tamagui and for what it's worth, it's been a joy. The dev is sometimes a bit slow to respond to some issues, but he's chugging along and doing a lot of work for a single person. I really like the theming system and the abstractions, but I hope it gains more traction and more of a team working on it so you can be sure it'll keep being maintained. The starter with nextjs/expo is sooo complicated th…
I agree it’s way too complex, it’s a problem I’m working on actively.
I’d like to first help https://vxrn.dev find some consistent contributors and get it stable.
And then I ported Expo Router to work with it, so shared single file system routes and no more need for a monorepo.
So now you’ve simplified from two bundlers, two stacks, four folders down to one stack, one bundler, and one folder.
And then I have some interesting ideas to make data a lot simpler which I’d like to try on top.
All together no reason we can’t make a modern Rails like experience work, but it is crazy how much work it is with all the modern stuff, but imo will pay off with something actually great for universal apps.
Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#10I love tamagui and their starter kit... But on other hand I feel anything I'd build with it could be achieved as web app + pwa.
For anything more complex id go with native app.
Anyone else feel the same ?
So building a good API layer + web app gives you possibility to build a good native app on top of same API later when your idea is validated