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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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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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.
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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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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Electron by Github is a more suitable platform for building desktop apps for many react development company.
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