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by joshcrowder
4141 days ago
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I'm really interested in this and am keen to try it out at the weekend! How is this going to play with react-native though? My thoughts are it may be a bit late to the party. I'm happy to see more options available to developers, Ionic looks like a great framework but I won't use it as its built on Angular. |
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I was actually at React conf and was initially a little deflated because it was announced with a lot of hype about how "hybrid doesn't cut it". But, after talking with FB folks I came away very happy. I think they will complement and gain from each other immensely.
A few notes on Native vs Hybrid:
1. Facebook is a big company with complex apps. They care very much about speed in their experience and can afford three development teams.
2. You can use Reapp today on all platforms, including web. Native is still unreleased. Outside of Facebook no once can use it, and it hasn't shipped any code for Android.
3. Native will feed back into hybrid well! They told me they wrote a much nicer touch library for it that could be ported back to JS, which I'm excited to do.
4. The dev experience with Reapp is still ahead big time. One codebase, hot reloading of components, and lots more, but you really can go from 0 to app in less time than any other way in my opinion.
In fact I think Reapp is a great way to get into React in general. With the CLI you have all the glue for a great React app in place. You can write your mobile website, and deploy to all platforms. Feel free to ask me any questions!