What’s the point of React Native when things like Ionic exist (webview adapter for React)? I’ve been using RN for years but just realized the JS engine doesn’t have JIT so will be way slower than the alternative I just mentioned (which seems to have similar bridge functionality and all the WebWhatever APIs since it’s a web view)
Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
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Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
speed to ship = native is bit funny considering you have no control on the review process have the app store markets. Painfully slow process releasing anything natively
If building a product takes a few months, and years of ongoing work, then the 2 weeks delay in submitting should round to 0 in terms of effect on your decision to go native or not unless there's some incredibly hard deadline.
Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#23I love Tamagui - for my are running an enterprise-grade application on it. It does come with some deep-sitting, surprising bugs though, for example modals on iOS with 2 select form components completely break form submitting but one works just fine.
Other than that, I think one cross-platform framework like Tamagui with a large company and team behind it would be the ideal framework for most projects.
Since it didn't exist: I did build a Tailwind-like UI library for Tamagui to make building new projects easier. It's called ComponentHub [0] and offers pre-built, more complex UI components
Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#24What’s the point of React Native when things like Ionic exist (webview adapter for React)? I’ve been using RN for years but just realized the JS engine doesn’t have JIT so will be way slower than the alternative I just mentioned (which seems to have similar bridge functionality and all the WebWhatever APIs since it’s a web view)
I’m new to React Native but I think the main benefit is that it can make a native app instead of just a web view. You can have transitions between screens and use native menus, for example.
Take a look at the 3 videos here: https://solito.dev
Solito is a thin wrapper around React Native and next.js so make it easier to share as much code as possible between the website and the native apps but still have the apps actually behave like native apps.
Re: Tamagui – UI kit that unify React Native and Web
#25I really hope javascript can have a framework similar to flutter or the new Kotlin multiplatform, that I can share most of the same code for desktop, mobile and web.
I’ve only just started using it but https://solito.dev/ seems to do exactly that.