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Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Post by oblio »

ld00d wrote: post #18
oblio wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1189117404435352/react-nativ...

What's the point of using a cross-platform tool if you're only targeting Android?

What's the point of developing on Mac for Android if I don't like Macs?

Also, why am I facing a (partially hostile) interrogatory right now?

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Post by ld00d »

oblio wrote: post #23
ld00d wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the point of using a cross-platform tool if you're only targeting Android?

What's the point of developing on Mac for Android if I don't like Macs? Also, why am I facing a (partially hostile) interrogatory right now?

Sorry, not being hostile. Just curious why someone would use React Native if they don't have a Mac to build/test on iOS. Why not just go straight to Android?

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Post by oblio »

ld00d wrote: post #24
oblio wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the point of developing on Mac for Android if I don't like Macs? Also, why am I facing a (partially hostile) interrogatory right now?

Sorry, not being hostile. Just curious why someone would use React Native if they don't have a Mac to build/test on iOS. Why not just go straight to Android?

Well... Javascript experience, code reuse between web and app, the possibility of later porting to iOS, etc.

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Post by educar »

bsimpson wrote: post #19
educar wrote: post #12

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Does it matter? Slack is free and most (all?) people I know only use the free edition. No different from using GitHub. People will always use free stuff if it's there and of good quality.

It's usually a good idea to lower friction and meet your users where they are. In the case of the React community, most have Discord accounts because Reactiflux was kicked off Slack for having too many non-commercial members. (Supporting open-source projects is an explicit non-goal for Slack.) Discord welcomes open-source communities and is quite popular in the React community. If you are adding an open-source tool t…

I haven't used Discord but it says "It’s time to ditch Skype and TeamSpeak." Skype is primarily 1-1 and not for irc. I have not heard of teamspeak but a quick google suggests it's for gamers. I don't quiet get how it replaces slack if it's replacing skype.

edit: looked into discord closer now. discord has no pricing information whatsoever. thanks, i prefer something where i pay for and hope will last.

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Post by ralphc »

zxcvcxz wrote: post #10

This appears to be only for OS X. I use to be a big OS X user, but have come to find Linux is a far superior development platform for me. From a comment on reddit: Most developers who use OSX do not develop for OSX/iPhone, but instead deploy 100% of their code to Linux VMs on EC2 or Digital Ocean. Their toolchain is usually 100% OSS terminal-based tools such as Vim/Emacs, tmux, clang/gcc, PHP/Python/Ruby, zsh/bash; a…

I've evolved into using a Mac for shiny browsing, iTunes, document reading but I've never gotten homebrew etc. to work correctly so I got a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro and dual-booted Linux for these exact reasons. It will be interesting to see if Windows 10 with Ubuntu bash captures any developer mindshare. It can be truly best of both worlds; the software the rest of the world uses plus all the developer tools in the command line.
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