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Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

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Re: Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

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Post by jed_watson »

colinramsay wrote: post #8
skrebbel wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure. Off of the feature list, it looks like a framework, not a component library. It takes over your app structure, build process, etc etc.

@jed_watson will be able to say more but I don't think that's the case. Take a look at the starter project here: https://github.com/Thinkmill/touchstone-starter/tree/master/... You should be able to piece together the UI parts you need. The starter also happens to include the build process run browserify and create a phonegap build, that's all. (disclaimer - I might be totally wrong)

Nope, I think you're spot on.

Re: Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

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Post by colinramsay »

jed_watson wrote: post #10
colinramsay wrote: post #9

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Is there any reason not to just use react-router? Edit: ok I found the createApp mixin and I can see you're doing a lot of stuff in there to support the touchstone app... It would be sweet if you could delegate some of that heavy lifting and integrate with react-router at the same time...

You need a lot more control over how the views transition, pass state, etc. in order to create a native-feeling app. The paradigm of links and parameters falls short, and eventually TouchstoneJS will exert a lot more control over the transitions. Right now we're using CSSTransitionGroup, but I expect we'll move to a JS-based transition method (possibly with tween-state) so you can do controlled or partial transitions…

That's fair enough. I'm looking forward to testing Touchstone out soon, I've got a test project in mind!

Re: Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

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Post by jblok »

Looks awesome, good work! I am using Ionic at the moment to develop a hybrid app and while it's a little more mature and a joy to play with, it doesn't as far as I'm aware have the awesome state change animations this has. Excited for the future of hybrid apps :)

Re: Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

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Post by jed_watson »

Kiro wrote: post #14

The demo is completely broken on my Samsung Galaxy S3 using the stock browser. Just a big black square with occasional flickering.

Thanks for letting me know. We haven't had a chance to test yet on a wide range of Android browsers, but it shouldn't be like that.

If you could open an issue on the GitHub project (http://github.com/JedWatson/touchstonejs) with details of your OS version and browser I'd really appreciate it!

Re: Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

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Post by apunic »

Hey Jed,

this is really AWESOME and finally shows what is possible with the power of nowadays browser rendering engines paired with a good JS lib (React is my favorite js lib).

I like very much the butter smooth transitions on any phone and it's nice that you spent so much attention in getting this thing so responsive, well done man.

When will this thing be live, having more documentation and can I play already around with the stuff on Github?

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

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Post by creativityhurts »

apunic wrote: post #16

Hey Jed, this is really AWESOME and finally shows what is possible with the power of nowadays browser rendering engines paired with a good JS lib (React is my favorite js lib). I like very much the butter smooth transitions on any phone and it's nice that you spent so much attention in getting this thing so responsive, well done man. When will this thing be live, having more documentation and can I play already aroun…

It's already on GitHub https://github.com/JedWatson/touchstonejs/

Re: Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

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Post by apunic »

creativityhurts wrote: post #17
apunic wrote: post #16

Hey Jed, this is really AWESOME and finally shows what is possible with the power of nowadays browser rendering engines paired with a good JS lib (React is my favorite js lib). I like very much the butter smooth transitions on any phone and it's nice that you spent so much attention in getting this thing so responsive, well done man. When will this thing be live, having more documentation and can I play already aroun…

It's already on GitHub https://github.com/JedWatson/touchstonejs/

Thanks, I saw it already :)

Jed, is on Github the latest version of Touchstone?

Re: Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

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Post by jed_watson »

apunic wrote: post #18
creativityhurts wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's already on GitHub https://github.com/JedWatson/touchstonejs/

Thanks, I saw it already :) Jed, is on Github the latest version of Touchstone?

It is, and the source for the demo is here: https://github.com/Thinkmill/touchstone-starter

Re: Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

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Post by djtidau »

The brevity of the page displaying just the roadmap and live demo is honestly quite refreshing.

It's great to be able to just look at what is there and see where the strengths and weaknesses are (at least with some face value).

Great work on this, I can't wait to see how it matures.

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