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wow...just an hour ago I asked if I should use Xamarin or React Native. https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=11398297&goto=threads%3Fid%3Dradicalman https://n

wow...just an hour ago I asked if I should use Xamarin or React Native. https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=11398297&goto=threads%3Fid%3Dradicalman https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=11398297&goto=threads%... and now this arrives... basically been struggling to run nuclide in an virtualbox ubuntu image on windows. This basically brings the react native to windows!!!!!! I always found it pretty pissy that nuclide didn't support windowds out of the gate and it was too much like Atom (insanely customizable but without the ability to ctrl+click on functions and variable declaration and high configurability with dependencies on 3rd party packages breaks Atom). like the comment by jolux, I vastly prefer VS over Atom. In fact I might ditch Atom asides using it as a powerful Notepad. man what is going on today? it's like a blitzkrieg by Microsoft. Yesterday Microsoft was still uninteresting to me because I associated with being close source, not playing nice with other open source technologies.... I can confidently say that my view of Microsoft has changed dramatically after release of VS, React-Native, Xamarin, and now an AWS Lambda alternative that looks much better than AWS....here's hoping I can get some free credits from Azure to test out Azure....which equally I used to ignore but now...I'm taking a keen interest in Azure and what it has to offer over AWS... It's really interesting to see Microsoft has made a huge effort in winning developer's hearts by opening up everything and it's working!

Spooks 11y ago
what are you going to end up using?
AdeptusAquinas 11y ago
Its Build 2016 right now, just in case you didn't know - its why there are so many dev-centric announcements.
evo_9 11y ago
You should most definitely look at the docs for both before you decide. Unless something has changed, the Xamarin docs are pretty weak. They seem good until you do something beyond a simple todo list, then you are on your own, with few books/resources to draw from. React on the other hand has a much more active community and thorough docs. I'm not saying Xamarin won't work for you, plenty of people seem to be productive in it. I personally have switched my focus to React and React-Native (coming from a c#/.net background). Now I just wish MS would support React as a first class citizen in Visual Studio 2015/Community. It's great it's supported in Code, but lets get it supported across the entire VS family. That would rule.
alexc05 11y ago
Holy shit! You're right! I only just put 2+2 together. With Ubuntu space native on Windows you actually CAN develop a react native app on Windows now.
- axemclion 11y ago
  Actually, you could already use ReactNative with Windows, but there were some quirks. I just run the packager, with watchman and flow disabled, and it works pretty well. The VS Android emulator is free and so much faster than the default emulator - thats why i use Windows to create Android apps atleast.
  - alexc05 11y ago
    Thanks for the note. I'll admit that when I was Greenfield on my current project the "we don't support Windows" stuff on the react native homepage was enough to ward me off. The timeline was to strict for me to risk running into a massive "gotcha." Ionic was a known entity and the "we will deliver successfully" choice as opposed to the "it will be so cool if this works" choice. In my heart I definitely wanted to make the cool choice... But pragmatism won out.
janpieterz 11y ago
There should be free Azure credit available for you at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial.

Spooks 11y ago

what are you going to end up using?

AdeptusAquinas 11y ago

Its Build 2016 right now, just in case you didn't know - its why there are so many dev-centric announcements.

evo_9 11y ago

You should most definitely look at the docs for both before you decide. Unless something has changed, the Xamarin docs are pretty weak. They seem good until you do something beyond a simple todo list, then you are on your own, with few books/resources to draw from. React on the other hand has a much more active community and thorough docs. I'm not saying Xamarin won't work for you, plenty of people seem to be productive in it. I personally have switched my focus to React and React-Native (coming from a c#/.net background). Now I just wish MS would support React as a first class citizen in Visual Studio 2015/Community. It's great it's supported in Code, but lets get it supported across the entire VS family. That would rule.

alexc05 11y ago

Holy shit! You're right! I only just put 2+2 together. With Ubuntu space native on Windows you actually CAN develop a react native app on Windows now.

axemclion 11y ago
Actually, you could already use ReactNative with Windows, but there were some quirks. I just run the packager, with watchman and flow disabled, and it works pretty well. The VS Android emulator is free and so much faster than the default emulator - thats why i use Windows to create Android apps atleast.
- alexc05 11y ago
  Thanks for the note. I'll admit that when I was Greenfield on my current project the "we don't support Windows" stuff on the react native homepage was enough to ward me off. The timeline was to strict for me to risk running into a massive "gotcha." Ionic was a known entity and the "we will deliver successfully" choice as opposed to the "it will be so cool if this works" choice. In my heart I definitely wanted to make the cool choice... But pragmatism won out.

janpieterz 11y ago

There should be free Azure credit available for you at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial.