[tomduncalf]

This is really exciting, I'd love to try out a build if you're able to share at some point. Nice work!

I experimented with running a React Native app on desktop earlier in the year. react-native-macos didn't seem ready for prime time and the app looked completely different to how it did on mobile - might be OK for simpler apps but the app I was porting had a very bespoke look and feel, most of which react-native-macos seemed to ignore in favour of default macOS widgets. I didn't take a proper look at react-native-windows, and using ReactXP would require rebuilding the whole UI to use their widgets.

What ended up working surprisingly well was using react-native-web to render the app to a browser, then running this in Electron (so that the app could communicate over IPC to a native backend for audio playback, more or less sending the same messages you would over the RN bridge over IPC instead) - I was pleasantly surprised how 95% of the UI "just worked", the only real changes I had to make was adding "onMouseX" handlers in places where I was using "onTouchX".

But for well documented reasons, Electron apps aren't always ideal, so being able to run RN natively like this would be really cool! I wonder if react-native-windows enables you to do more or less the same on Windows, and if there is a Linux equivalent? If not, the Electron approach would probably still win out for my use case, but definitely an area I'm excited to see development in.

[brunolemos]

That's what I did as well, tried react-native-macos but that didn't work. I also have an Electron version using react-native-web, which works great.

Now, with Apple Catalyst, things got really interesting. Try it on your project and let me know how it goes, specially the performance. I haven't tried react-native-windows yet but that's on my radar. I don't think we have a high quality alternative for Linux.