The showcase apps for React Native doesn't have very many rich & complex mobile apps (except for Facebook's own apps, but we don't really know how much of those apps are actually React Native based). NativeScript showcase page is even worse. So, I thought of asking HNers what their experience with RN (or NativeScript) has been. If you were starting a new mobile app startup, would you bet on React Native or NativeScript? If not, what are the main reasons against it?
Yes. Where I work we are building a cross-platform iOS, iPad, Android and Android tablet with it, and it's brilliant! Super nice API, performance and tooling. Use Nuclide though, the React and Flow support is second to none
Good: User interface declared as a pure function of state.<p>Bad: Doing that in a language without a moderately competent type system.<p>Would be interested in a Swift port, using plain old structs instead of tags.
Check out Discord. It's like Slack for gamers, I've been using it with some friends. It's written in React Native, and uses regular 'ol React on the desktop. Feels clean and like a native app.<p><a href="https://discordapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://discordapp.com/</a>
There was a thread from a week ago discussing a React IDE, that seems to have gotten more traction (though not exactly what you were looking for:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074653" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074653</a>