IDE for building React Native apps is now free and open source

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Wow this is the best iterative development I&#x27;ve seen for iOS and easiest way I&#x27;ve seen to get started with React Native.<p>Enabling Hot Reloading (w&#x2F; Ctrl+D) lets you see changes as you type, you don&#x27;t even need to hit Save. If this is a sign to come from React Native, it&#x27;s going to be a game changer for both iterative development experience and code-reuse between iOS&#x2F;Android.<p>My only concern is that I don&#x27;t see how an IDE not developed in partnership with Facebook is going to succeed as I&#x27;d expect it to always be playing catchup with new features. Maybe it would&#x27;ve been better as a series of Atom plugin enhancements on top of Facebook&#x27;s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nuclide.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nuclide.io</a>

So pretty soon we&#x27;ll have cross platform UI development again, including eventually Mac and Windows once React Native is ported there. (Windows is I think already in beta somewhere.)<p>If we can bring in the web again via React Native for the Web (with &#x27;widgets&#x27;) then we can have UI &quot;everywhere&quot; with a mostly common code base.<p>I feel like eventually we are going to really converge. It&#x27;s going to take a while before it&#x27;s pretty and seamless and performant, but I feel like we&#x27;ll eventually get there. The benefits are just too massive for it not to happen, especially for smaller projects that don&#x27;t have a budget to have six dev teams maintain six UI code bases.

Why use an IDE focused on React Native vs a generalist one with React support?

Many are starting to use GitHub as a registry for hosting packages, in this case Deco components[1].<p>GitHub should look into this, otherwise we get git repos with directories that are thousands in length.<p>Certainly it makes sense to host published code on GitHub as well as in-development code.<p>I could see it replacing the likes of NPM[2], Packagist[3], RubyGems[4], PyPI[5], etc.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;decosoftware&#x2F;deco-components&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;.deco" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;decosoftware&#x2F;deco-components&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packagist.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packagist.org&#x2F;</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rubygems.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rubygems.org&#x2F;</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi</a>

Who here uses this? I&#x27;d love some real-world feedback on your experience. It looks awesome.

This looks awesome - even has pretty documentation!<p>Have run the tutorial without issue, took only a couple of minutes.<p>There seems to be only a small number of Components available out the box, with new ones accepted via PR.<p>This works fine for now, but it would be great if I could import my own Components or even build new ones within the UI.<p>I&#x27;d like to be able to &quot;View Source&quot; on a Component, it&#x27;s obviously available via GitHub, but that&#x27;s a few more clicks away.<p>Does anyone know of any similar IDE for desktop React?

Is it only for OS X?

Is this only for React Native and not web React?