Developing Our First iOS App with React Native
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Developing Our First iOS App with React Native
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Re: Developing Our First iOS App with React Native
#2really cool. I'd love to see a webcast on this.
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#3> Not knowing Objective C or Swift
I think this is a key phrase here. I'm writing a RN Android app without knowing much about Java.
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#4As for the styling part, This is actually a relief to see since I am using Radium and it looks like some of the styles I have will work without any modification. Any other styles I would have to rewrite anyway.
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#5> Not knowing Objective C or Swift I think this is a key phrase here. I'm writing a RN Android app without knowing much about Java.
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#6> Learn once, write anywhere
What's most amazing to me about React Native was how quickly we were able to go from idea to product (~3 months working only part-time) using our existing knowledge as web developers. We did have to write a few lines of Objective-C here and there, but for the most part all of the views and interactions fell together the same way a webapp would.
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#7> Not knowing Objective C or Swift I think this is a key phrase here. I'm writing a RN Android app without knowing much about Java.
You can write a CRUD like app without any hardware/native code required. However, even when you do need that code - for example I'm building an app that records and plays audio - react native still gives you an advantage in the sense that you only need to expose a hardware API but all the logic still stays in javascript. I've managed to write just enough Objective C and Java to expose some APIs I need, and no more.
There is also a lot of react-native npm packages that abstract away the hardware issues, quality & completeness varies however.
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#8I'm sure this observation was probably made tens of thousands of times before, but- is the React Native and frameworks like it the beginning of the end of the "native vs. mobile web" debate? A synthesis of both approaches?
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#9Still, how do you get hired as a lead mobile dev without having and native platform skills?
The entire development world has gone tits-up in the last 10 years. It's all about nonsense package management for JavaScript libraries (why can't I just include a .js off a cdn? npm? What the actual fuck?), and an endless stream of disparate components which are often ill-supported, or just plain ditched after they've had their ten seconds in the limelight.
I guess I'm lucky in that my degree taught me how to make a cut down ARM CPU from scratch, write the assembly to test it, write a simple compiler to compile a minimal C to ARM asm, etc.
THAT IS FULL STACK!
"Full stack engineer" is laughable sometimes these days.
Performance problem? Ok... Know what a profiled binary is? dtrace? vmstat? No? Post on stack overflow or just spin up more cloud instances? Yup!
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#10> Not knowing Objective C or Swift I think this is a key phrase here. I'm writing a RN Android app without knowing much about Java.
Have you run into any gotchas? I am thinking of doing the same thing for a simple app.