Pepperoni – A framework to build apps faster, powered by React Native

What about Cycle Native?

It took a while to find the "getting started" page:

https://github.com/futurice/pepperoni-app-kit/blob/master/do...

Ultimately, I'm rooting for libui[1] over React Native or anything related to it. But the more competition, the better, since competition seems to usually drive innovation.

You know, it's kind of funny how we've come full circle. 15-20 years ago, developers were experimenting with all sorts of new GUI ideas.

I remember using a program that had something that looked like scrollbars, but the mouse's scroll-wheel wouldn't work on them, and you couldn't drag them either, you could only scroll by clicking the arrow buttons on the top and bottom. But man, it looked super sleek, like it came straight out of the movie Aliens or something!

And now we're doing the same thing. Reinventing GUI so that it's pretty, but ends up being broken. I wish I could find that one tweet from a year ago or so, where someone said that scrolling a certain web page triggered no less than something like 67 animations.

[1] https://github.com/andlabs/libui

They are, I can't really see anything in common in the platforms these two target.

It'd be great if they showed a screenshot from a hello world app or something. It's really hard to actually know what they mean when they use words I think I understand.

maybe the code example or hello world is on another page, but if cross platform rapid app development is the core value prop, they need to put it front and center based on their audience - app developers.

all the landing page gives me now are fancy framework words with no APIs and a picture of a pizza.

I'm justing starting out as an iOS developer. I wonder how the growing popularity around React Native will impact native development. I mean Futurice for example doesn't have a shortage of good iOS developers looking at their best practice guides and all.