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by mintplant 80 days ago
> This is the Windows 11 start menu. See that Recommended section at the bottom of it? That is built with React Native for Windows. No, that is not a full JavaScript framework in your start menu. There’s no web view / browser running gobbling up your resources. It’s React Native for Windows which is a flavor of React Native that directly calls Windows APIs including, you guessed it, WinUI 3.

I would still say that means Windows Start uses React, frankly.
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daviddever23box 80 days ago
React Native, absolutely - as with Office 365, using WinUI 3 as the underlying UI layer.
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madeofpalk 80 days ago
Running a full javascript framework in a javascript runtime.
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kristianp 80 days ago
When did office start using React Native? Office has been around well before the creation of javascript, let alone react.
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p_ing 80 days ago
I'm not sure that it uses React Native, but modern add-ins for Office are JS, so any injected modern add-in will be using JS rather than COM/C/C++. This gave add-ins portability between all supported Office platforms, increased security, and made administration much easier.
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