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Pepperoni – A framework to build apps faster, powered by React Native

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Re: Pepperoni – A framework to build apps faster, powered by React Native

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Post by kimmobru »

alttab wrote: post #8

It'd be great if they showed a screenshot from a hello world app or something. It's really hard to actually know what they mean when they use words I think I understand. maybe the code example or hello world is on another page, but if cross platform rapid app development is the core value prop, they need to put it front and center based on their audience - app developers. all the landing page gives me now are fancy f…

I forwarded this to the main contributors, thanks for the good feedback. Pepperoni is more of a starter kit to kickstart your React Native development as fast as possible. You get the redux architecture and other solid pieces but there's no internal framework API. I hope that explained the core idea.

Re: Pepperoni – A framework to build apps faster, powered by React Native

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Post by rco8786 »

kimmobru wrote: post #11
alttab wrote: post #8

It'd be great if they showed a screenshot from a hello world app or something. It's really hard to actually know what they mean when they use words I think I understand. maybe the code example or hello world is on another page, but if cross platform rapid app development is the core value prop, they need to put it front and center based on their audience - app developers. all the landing page gives me now are fancy f…

I forwarded this to the main contributors, thanks for the good feedback. Pepperoni is more of a starter kit to kickstart your React Native development as fast as possible. You get the redux architecture and other solid pieces but there's no internal framework API. I hope that explained the core idea.

That idea is explained well, but I agree with OP in that a working example would do wonders.

Is this a boilerplate repo that I should clone and build off of? Is this a project generator like rake? Is this a library I should npm install to depend on?

How do I actually use it?

Re: Pepperoni – A framework to build apps faster, powered by React Native

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Post by jevakallio »

andybak wrote: post #9

How back-end agnostic is it? The most likely case for me is that a back-end would already exists (or I'd be building one with Django Rest Framework)

Pepperoni App Kit is going be fully backend agnostic - we haven't implemented all the bits yet, but the only assumption we will be making is that your data is JSON served over HTTP, using JWT authentication - and the authentication bit can be easily changed.

We are also going to implement a Pepperoni Backend Kit, based on node.js. The App Kit will not require you to use that backend, though.

Re: Pepperoni – A framework to build apps faster, powered by React Native

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Post by [deleted] »

kimmobru wrote: post #11
alttab wrote: post #8

It'd be great if they showed a screenshot from a hello world app or something. It's really hard to actually know what they mean when they use words I think I understand. maybe the code example or hello world is on another page, but if cross platform rapid app development is the core value prop, they need to put it front and center based on their audience - app developers. all the landing page gives me now are fancy f…

I forwarded this to the main contributors, thanks for the good feedback. Pepperoni is more of a starter kit to kickstart your React Native development as fast as possible. You get the redux architecture and other solid pieces but there's no internal framework API. I hope that explained the core idea.

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Re: Pepperoni – A framework to build apps faster, powered by React Native

#16

Post by jevakallio »

alttab wrote: post #8

It'd be great if they showed a screenshot from a hello world app or something. It's really hard to actually know what they mean when they use words I think I understand. maybe the code example or hello world is on another page, but if cross platform rapid app development is the core value prop, they need to put it front and center based on their audience - app developers. all the landing page gives me now are fancy f…

Thanks for the feedback! One of our team members is working on a sample app, launching as soon as it's done :) We didn't want to delay the release until "everything" was complete, in order to gather input such as yours. If you're interested on learning when the sample app is released, please subscribe to our mailing list and we'll let you know!

Re: Pepperoni – A framework to build apps faster, powered by React Native

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Post by distances »

hypercluster wrote: post #10

I'm justing starting out as an iOS developer. I wonder how the growing popularity around React Native will impact native development. I mean Futurice for example doesn't have a shortage of good iOS developers looking at their best practice guides and all.

That's the life of a developer, I'd say. Frameworks, languages and platforms come and go, so planning for the far-away future doesn't make much sense. It's much more important to grasp the core concepts, learn quickly, and keep the interest in continuous skill set development.

Re: Pepperoni – A framework to build apps faster, powered by React Native

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Post by Zyst »

rco8786 wrote: post #12
kimmobru wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I forwarded this to the main contributors, thanks for the good feedback. Pepperoni is more of a starter kit to kickstart your React Native development as fast as possible. You get the redux architecture and other solid pieces but there's no internal framework API. I hope that explained the core idea.

That idea is explained well, but I agree with OP in that a working example would do wonders. Is this a boilerplate repo that I should clone and build off of? Is this a project generator like rake? Is this a library I should npm install to depend on? How do I actually use it?

I agree with this. The page says it's a framework, but I feel like it's describing a kickstarter/generator. That said, I will bookmark Pepperoni and give it a go during the weekend, it looks interesting.
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