[mbrock]

I could write a Lovecraftian short story about my experience with React Native. Trying to turn a web app into a delightful React Native app nearly sank me into depression & burnout.

[Edited to clarify that of course I can't blame my mental health problems on a UI framework... but I keep the formulation for the sake of sympathy with anyone else who may feel less than "delightful."]

It was pretty cool at first, after a couple of months of trying to get the thing working decently without crashing, lagging, or just sucking, I gave up on the whole project.

I don't doubt that many people use React Native with delight. But there are aspects of it that are likely to cause frustration. It's a mashup of two incommensurable platforms, and in the gap between them there is horror.

[neoeldex]

You do realize that React itself is only 3 years old. React native is even only about a year old.

What expectation do you have when deciding to use a framework which hasn't even released it's 1.0 yet.

[mbrock]

Yeah, of course. Well, I was hopeful, based on the glowing copy and what I had heard.

[st3v3r]

Then why the hell has it been released already?