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I know lots of platforms-of-the-month come through HN, and it's hard to filter the signal from the noise...just wanted to add another voice that Exponent is indeed awesome. Built by one of the sharpest (and most humble) teams in the valley.
This looks very interesting, but I'd like to know that if I ever did need to fall back to native APIs, I could keep the code I've written using Exponent's APIs still (even if that means I couldn't use the convenient build tools anymore). Is this possible?
What's the preferred way to test an Exponent based app?
This looks very interesting, but I'd like to know that if I ever did need to fall back to native APIs, I could keep the code I've written using Exponent's APIs still (even if that means I couldn't use the convenient build tools anymore). Is this possible?
- Fork the Exponent client and add your native API.
- Try to get a patch into upstream.
- If it's not urgent, ask us if we plan to implement it and if it seems like a common enough use case we would add it to our roadmap.
- Go into the Exponent source and copy whatever native code you need into a new React Native project.
We're also working on a way to "eject" from Exponent similar to the create-react-app eject command but easier to reverse and to keep receiving updates to Exponent, because it's not an "all-in" kind of eject, you can read more about that here: https://blog.getexponent.com/answered-on-slack-ejecting-from... (caveat: this feature is still in early development)
Since native modules can't be used with this, what is the difference between this and, say, Appcelerator Titanium?
Intriguing. But how does exponent make money out of this?
Hey! I work on Exponent. Basically, we don't make money right now. Our plan is to eventually help developers make money and take some cut of that. We're open source so you'll never be locked in if we start doing anything you don't agree with. We talk about it a little more at https://docs.getexponent.com/versions/latest/introduction/fa...
Part of the allure of writing React Native apps for me is that knowing React would make me a more valuable developer. I'm curious to see how comfortable I feel saying "I know React" after using these IDEs long-term.
i'm not too familiar with react native - how much support is there for using languages other than javascript (i.e. a compiled-to-javascript language)?