React Native Desktop

Build OS X desktop apps using React Native

34 followers

Build OS X desktop apps using React Native

34 followers

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Launch tags:Mac•Developer Tools•Tech

Launch Team

Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentIsolated compute, persistent state and a real filesystem

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Epoque

This is awesome. But won't people go to electron + react since it can port to multiple platforms? Like I can write electron and deploy it to web, OS X, Windows and even Linux with barely any code reuse?

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10yr ago

Laser Kitten

Wow, this is amazing. I'd love to see some more comparisons between this and Electron. Good work @potomushto

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10yr ago

React Native Desktop

Maker

@imns81 Electron: - cross-platform; - open web standards; - huge ecosystem; - proven in the real world (Slack, Atom), backed by one of the best possible maintainer (Github); RN for Desktop: - Small footprint, less CPU / Memory consumption, which potentially gives your more battery efficiency; - Easy integration with low-level native components and any needed desktop APIs; - Performance (no benchmarks), still at the same time most part of the UI is written in Javascript.

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10yr ago

Any Swift integration? Looks rad either way. I built a menubar app with electron which was cool but it ended up being close to 1gb.

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10yr ago

React Native Desktop

Maker

Thank you ProductHunt team for featuring RN for OS X! It's just a fork of the original React Native built by Facebook, so all kudos to them and the whole community for making such a powerful abstraction over the UI and the tooling around it. I've just replaced the UIKit with the AppKit. Electron by Github is a more suitable platform for building desktop apps in many cases, though, I believe RN for desktop also makes sense when you need a small footprint, advantages of the javascript ecosystem and the familiar developer experience.

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10yr ago

This is awesome. While Electron exists to build desktop app-encapsulated web apps, this takes it further and does away with the unnecessary web style. Looking forward to using this!

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10yr ago