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So Microsoft now have -2- cross-platform application-frameworks they offer: - Xamarin with .NET. Mobile apps only. - ReactXP. Which also supports regular web-applications It will be interesting to see if these two end up competing, or if one will be ditched in favour of the other.
AS a C# programmer, I hope MS can be more focused on Xamarin. Have tried react kind of staff, just can't get into javascript.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a big deal? This basically means you can finally share your React code across platforms. It has always felt off that React and React Native are so similar, yet you can't use the same code for web and apps.
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Does Xamarian provide desktop widgets?
There is Xamarin.Forms, which is essentially cross platform XAML with a base set of widgets. It supports Android, iOS, UWP, and they are working on MacOS. No Linux yet.
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The OS API integration, C# and F# are also selling points. Qt doesn't support even half of the OS APIs that Xamarin does. As for JavaScript based solutions, I don't intend to ever use it outside the browser.
I have same feelings for js in general, but I suggest you to try React Native. Just follow their official docs/tutorial. I was pleasantly surprised how straightforward it is. I believe you can as well use TypeScript.
As for ReactNative, give it two or three years and maybe then I will bother learning it.
As an old dog I have already seen too many carriages pass by, very few of them come back.
I really want React for desktop apps. Currently we are running into some performance issues with large datasets and spreadsheets, and being able to offer a performant desktop app would be ideal. Right now we're considering using .NET and ReoGrid, since Qt is too expensive and we only target Windows anyways.
You can use Electron and do that. Not a ton of love for it around here because omg a web page as a desktop app the horror but I've had good experiences with it. (And if you e ever used Slack or Atom, you've used Electron)
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What are different platforms referring to here? The quoted sentence sounds like it means web vs apps but you (and the parent?) make it seem like we're talking about Android vs iOS.
And Windows vs OS X vs Linux.
> With React and React Native, your web app can share most its logic with your iOS and Android apps, but the view layer needs to be implemented separately for each platform.
This is referring to web vs apps, in other words React vs React Native. That's the context of my reply. They are not talking about the (optional) differences within a React Native app to fit different platforms.
Is there a screenshot somewhere to see how it looks like our am I missing something?
indeed a set of cross-platform samples would have been nice
So Microsoft now have -2- cross-platform application-frameworks they offer: - Xamarin with .NET. Mobile apps only. - ReactXP. Which also supports regular web-applications It will be interesting to see if these two end up competing, or if one will be ditched in favour of the other.