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I find irrelevant gifs embedded in a blog post like this make the entire article unreadable. It's distracting and annoying.
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I'm working on an Android app. I use react-native solely for the UI which I update, redux-style, with a state-tree. The state and all it's transition and event-handling is done in Kotlin/Java. I've written a small helper that generates kotlin-Interfaces from the react/jsx-files and automatically connects everything. This way I have react's HotReload and the other benefits for UI-design and a proper typed language and…
Sounds like a great use case of React Native where RN is specifically used for what it is designed for: the UI layer. I've done apps with both approaches (all RN or UI-only RN), and I'd love to read or see more about your approach.
I have a Controller that takes UIEvents and NetworkEvents from a BlockingQueue (CSP). The state reduces everything. Kotlin's "when" constructs are extremely convenient here, but want to make sure I'm not going to far into the functional direction, if you get what I mean.
The state is completely serialisable (in fact gets serialised to and from JSON in onPause/onResume).
I'm doing networking declaratively as well, a serialisable request-description is put into the state and it's the "NetworkManager"'s job to figure out which requests to start or stop.
Kotlin's delegated property are also awesome, because I can mix and match functions and variables.
/* show loading animation */
override val isLoading by stateFn {
it.runningRequests.any { it is LoginReq }
}Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you use react native on mobile and react on the web the core model and business logic can easily be shared since it is just pure js. And you can use any of the languages that transpiles to js: TypeScript, Clojurescript etc.
What about performance and the "overhead" that React Native might introduce?
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