[Kiro]

Am I the only one who thinks this is a big deal? This basically means you can finally share your React code across platforms. It has always felt off that React and React Native are so similar, yet you can't use the same code for web and apps.

[jameslk]

Like Java? Or QT? React Native being different for different platforms was kind of the point. "Learn once, write anywhere." This meant they could focus on wrapping the features of each unique platform without having to worry about how that affects supporting all of them simultaneously. Otherwise you get the lowest-common-denominator effect of supporting only the available APIs common between all platforms. And all of the painful effort of making sure everything works consistently and predictably across all platforms.

[Kiro]

It fits some kind of apps. I've built one React Native app where the "lowest-common-denominator" was more than good enough (no special code for different platforms) and would have worked just as well as a web app but wasn't possible due to the nature of React/React Native. If I would have used ReactXP I could have published it on the web as well and used just one React code base so this is good news for me.

I don't understand what you're trying to argue about. If you don't like it, don't use it.

[jameslk]

> I don't understand what you're trying to argue about. If you don't like it, don't use it.

I'm not arguing for or against ReactXP. Although if others start pushing the default to using ReactXP over React/React Native, that will be a disappointing repeat of history. My comment was addressing your statement:

> It has always felt off that React and React Native are so similar, yet you can't use the same code for web and apps.

[migueloller]

This has been possible for a while now. See my comment here: [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14068400

[Kiro]

That's really cool. I had no idea. Thanks!