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React Native is able to build abstractions on top of both Android and iOS that uses native UI. Microsoft even have a package for doing a "React Native" for Wind
by theknarf 8mo ago
React Native is able to build abstractions on top of both Android and iOS that uses native UI. Microsoft even have a package for doing a "React Native" for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows
It's weird that we don't have a unified "React Native Desktop" that would build upon the react-native-windows package and add similar backends for MacOS and Linux. That way we could be building native apps while keeping the stuff developers like from React.
- reverius42 8mo agoThere are such implementations for React Native: https://reactnative.dev/docs/out-of-tree-platforms https://reactnative.dev/docs/out-of-tree-platforms
- realusername 8mo agoReact Native desktop on Linux isn't a thing, the GTK backend is abandonned. So if you want a multiplatform desktop app also supporting Linux, React Native isn't going to cut it.
- sideeffffect 8mo agohttps://reactnative.dev/docs/out-of-tree-platforms https://reactnative.dev/docs/out-of-tree-platforms says otherwise React Native Skia allegedly runs on Linux too
- sideeffffect 8mo agoReact Native Skia seems abandoned. But maybe this will make React Native on Linux viable https://github.com/gtkx-org/gtkx https://github.com/gtkx-org/gtkx
- realusername 8mo agoReact Native Skia last commit is three years ago.