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by truetuna 3142 days ago
I've used Shoutem's standalone UI library[1] for my last project but haven't used their platform as a whole. During that time, I found it painful to get it working.

Their documentation[2] wasn't great. It was out of date (missing component attributes, icons etc.) and lacked good examples. Often I would have to dig into the source to figure out obscure errors. When I first starting using @shoutem/ui, I couldn't use the latest version of React Native because they locked themselves into an experimental feature[3] which even until now, seems like it hasn't properly resolved.

Again. I can't comment on their platform but I didn't have a good time using their UI library. Had I known this, I would have just gone with NativeBase[4].

[1] - https://github.com/shoutem/ui

[2] - https://shoutem.github.io/docs/ui-toolkit/components/typogra...

[3] - https://github.com/shoutem/ui/issues/241

[4] - https://nativebase.io/