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Reapp – hybrid apps, fast

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Re: Reapp – hybrid apps, fast

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Post by shoq »

At first glance it looks nice. I played around with Ionic Framework and if Reapp is going in a similar direction and gets enough traction I can imagine using it in the future. Let's see what React Native brings to the table.

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Post by unwind »

I feel so totally out of the loop when I don't even understand what it is a hybrid of?!

I really think the landing page could be more clear, perhaps there's more backwards people like me.

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Post by joshcrowder »

I'm really interested in this and am keen to try it out at the weekend!

How is this going to play with react-native though? My thoughts are it may be a bit late to the party.

I'm happy to see more options available to developers, Ionic looks like a great framework but I won't use it as its built on Angular.

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Post by joshcrowder »

unwind wrote: post #3

I feel so totally out of the loop when I don't even understand what it is a hybrid of ?! I really think the landing page could be more clear, perhaps there's more backwards people like me.

Hybrid in this instance means HTML wrapped in an iOS wrapper ala Phonegap.

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Post by lordbusiness »

joshcrowder wrote: post #4

I'm really interested in this and am keen to try it out at the weekend! How is this going to play with react-native though? My thoughts are it may be a bit late to the party. I'm happy to see more options available to developers, Ionic looks like a great framework but I won't use it as its built on Angular.

Indeed - right now I'm super excited at how much activity there is in JS-land. It's a lovely time to be a JS hacker. :-)

That being said, I can't help but wonder if a bunch of people who clearly have been working very hard were feeling a bit gutted last week when React Native news hit the street.

Hopefully both offerings will find a following.

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Post by jbob2000 »

The only problem with these is that they never have good support for device features (GPS, NFC, Bluetooth, MMS, etc.). If you just need to build a static app that doesn't need any kind of mobile device feature, just build a web app.

Re: Reapp – hybrid apps, fast

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Post by moondowner »

morenoh149 wrote: post #7

Just want to mention a similar project http://touchstonejs.io/ haven't tried it yet

I've checked out quickly both Reapp and Touchstone. At the moment Reapp seems more mature: has better tooling (e.g. the command line tool to generate projects), uses Webpack, has quite big UI kit, etc...
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