[stragio]

Good to see this on HN, I’d love to share my journey with Takeout!

I first encountered Takeout about a year ago while experimenting with cross-platform development after reading this blog post: The Different Tech Strategies for Building a Cross-Platform App (https://magnemg.eu/the-different-tech-strategies-for-buildin...)

At work, we urgently needed an iOS app to enable push notifications for our logistics app, but our frontend was web-only and built with React/Next.js. Since the codebase was already several years old with many screens, we decided to port it to Capacitor, which led us to adopt a stack with Next.js and Capacitor (https://github.com/RobSchilderr/nextjs-native-starter).

However, once we began working with Capacitor, we ran into numerous issues. Dealing with the iOS keyboard and Safari WebView was almost impossible with famous scrolling issues, and Android’s Chrome WebView also suffered from poor performance (https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/discussions/3899).

This experience pushed me to switch to Expo with Solito and Tamagui, and the new stack has been a game changer. The support from Nate and the Tamagui team has been outstanding. Also Expo and EAS has been working flawlessly.

Now, with One, cross platform development is entering a new phase which address the final challenges of cross-platform development. Sharing code with Expo and Tamagui used to be manageable only for those familiar with cross-platform solutions, but now it’s becoming accessible to everyone. I bet it will be easier for new folks to understand how to work with Expo and Tamagui.

Combine that with local-first, and small teams will be able to build high-performance applications across three platforms using just one simple codebase quickly.

[redbar0n]

Context:

Tamagui Takeout is a paid fullstack starter kit based on Tamagui (and Drizzle): https://tamagui.dev/takeout

They’ve started a rewrite of Takeout to One (Zero instead of Drizzle, etc.), and are grandfathering in all existing users (also those who start using it before the rewrite is released). More in thread:

https://x.com/tamagui_js/status/1841985327139098649

PS: I’m happy you found use of my blog post about the various tech strategies/choices when making a cross-platform app. :)

[stragio]

That blog post was spot on in 2022! Cheers for that. Time for a re-write in 2025!

And thanks for adding the context on Takeout.

[amne]

I get "programmers are also human" vibes reading this. It is so uncanny.

more context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWfYxg-Ypm4

[esperent]

Was this written by AI? It sounds very uncanny valley like. Or otherwise, is it a paid marketing post?

[rmbyrro]

We're gonna need a new entry in HN guidelines about AI sniffing

[WD-42]

The sheer number of Tech Nouns in this post is dazzling. What have we done.

[anxman]

I'm really happy with Takeout. It has its flaws but it's the easiest stack to get up for web/ios/android.