Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web

Post by evv » Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 10:02 PM UTC

devbent wrote: post #4

evv wrote: post #3

I 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?

Post by brundolf » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 12:32 AM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 5:36 AM UTC

nwienert wrote: post #12

random_kris wrote: post #10

I 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

PWA definitely have their place, but the UX is unquestionably far worse. I’d say though that I’d actually choose Tamagui and native if I was going for speed to ship. Even if building a PWA, Tamagui is a great way with components designed for mobile.

Post by leononame » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 7:21 AM UTC

nwienert wrote: post #9

leononame wrote: post #8

I'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 int…

Post by antigirl » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 9:39 AM UTC

nwienert wrote: post #12

random_kris wrote: post #10

I 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

PWA definitely have their place, but the UX is unquestionably far worse. I’d say though that I’d actually choose Tamagui and native if I was going for speed to ship. Even if building a PWA, Tamagui is a great way with components designed for mobile.