With React Native it’s not all sugar and spice

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Post by mdhayes » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 7:11 AM UTC

With React Native it’s not all sugar and spice
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Re: With React Native it’s not all sugar and spice

#2

Post by grantcox » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 7:33 AM UTC

I find irrelevant gifs embedded in a blog post like this make the entire article unreadable. It's distracting and annoying.

Re: With React Native it’s not all sugar and spice

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Post by cl3m » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 7:34 AM UTC

If you want a single IDE, vscode is really great.

Re: With React Native it’s not all sugar and spice

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Post by andyfleming » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 7:35 AM UTC

grantcox wrote: post #2

I find irrelevant gifs embedded in a blog post like this make the entire article unreadable. It's distracting and annoying.

3 images is not unreasonable for an article, but I do agree they felt a bit irrelevant.

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Post by conceit » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 7:38 AM UTC

grantcox wrote: post #2

I find irrelevant gifs embedded in a blog post like this make the entire article unreadable. It's distracting and annoying.

It's supposed to be distracting, but moodlifting, seeing the post exposes essentially negative oppoinions. Of course they are devoid of content.

Re: With React Native it’s not all sugar and spice

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Post by pjmlp » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 7:38 AM UTC

For me C++ is all I need for portable native code, no need to add extra layers that kind of work, that only increase code entropy and debugging efforts.

Directly available in iOS, Android, WP, Tizen, Ubuntu SDKs.

The only major problem is the way Google disregards their NDK stack, while Microsoft and NVidia engineers are able to do what Google PhDs are not.

Re: With React Native it’s not all sugar and spice

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Post by conceit » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 7:39 AM UTC

> When you develop a fully native app you do it pretty much in one place. On iOS you’re in Xcode, for Android you’re in Android Studio. With React Native you have a terminal (with a couple of panes), a text editor, perhaps Redux Remote DevTools plus your IDE for the platform you’re targeting.

It's not like those IDEs can't be configured to work with the raw tools.

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Post by skrebbel » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 8:02 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #6

For me C++ is all I need for portable native code, no need to add extra layers that kind of work, that only increase code entropy and debugging efforts. Directly available in iOS, Android, WP, Tizen, Ubuntu SDKs. The only major problem is the way Google disregards their NDK stack, while Microsoft and NVidia engineers are able to do what Google PhDs are not.

How do you build the ui? Just push pixels? Or vertices? Some library maybe?

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Post by rkwz » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 8:05 AM UTC

You should do your due diligence before using a framework/library/technology for production code. Don't just follow the hype.

http://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/guidelines-to-choose-a-javasc...

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Post by TeeWEE » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 8:19 AM UTC

I wouldnt recommend react for any app which you want togo big. In the end, you need to rewrite it to native code anyway, because you want to use the latest feature, or because you have bugs because react native doesnt follow the platform guidelines (activities, activity stack, etc)