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Switching to React definitely has a learning curve, especially if you are coming from old-stool JavaScript or just not used to some of the concepts in React or

Switching to React definitely has a learning curve, especially if you are coming from old-stool JavaScript or just not used to some of the concepts in React or Redux themselves. That said, once you get your head around it things start falling into place. We're recently built a React Native app and I feel the benefits it brings to cross-platform development make that ramp-up worthwhile. A single iOS and Android codebase is a glorious thing, and helps avoid needing silo's of specialized developers. I would say that the maturity (or lack thereof) is obvious when using React. The big ideas are solid, but there is a lot of thrashing - you need to watch each new version for backward-compatibility issues and carefully manage your dependencies. Coming from Ruby/Rails, I also feel like React is still at the point where you're spending a lot of time configuring things vs adopting standard conventions - it's getting there, and projects like react-navigation are helping build up that boilerplate, but certainly can be frustrating at times.

virmundi 9y ago
How much of your code is OS focused? When I tried other approaches such as Ionic, the views started to be come heavily OS focused. Do you just forgo the native appearance?
- johnydays 9y ago
  React native renders native views using native code, so you don't really have to forgo the native appearance
lawik 9y ago
I saw a fascinating talk on Redux, I like the idea of how it manages state and the whole event sourced approach to that. I've repeatedly tried to get Redux going with either React or Vue but have found it surprisingly hard. Many outdated seed projects and installation instructions made it somewhat painful. I've played a bit with React from the more recent create-react-app and that got me started with some of it. I haven't been sold yet, I realize that I want something to cause the events and update the DOM but I haven't been sold on why React is best for that yet. Always annoying when you try to approach some tech and have a hard bounce off of it.
- acemarke 9y ago
  If you've got questions on using React or Redux, please feel free to drop by the Reactiflux chat channels on Discord and ask. I hang out there most evenings, and there's many others happy to help as well. The invite link is at https://www.reactiflux.com https://www.reactiflux.com. In addition, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics. It includes links for learning core Javascript (ES5), modern Javascript (ES6+), React, and much more. I also published an "Intro to React (and Redux)" presentation at http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/02/presentation-react-redux-intro/ http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/02/presentation-react-... , which is a good overview of the basic concepts for both React and Redux.

virmundi 9y ago

How much of your code is OS focused? When I tried other approaches such as Ionic, the views started to be come heavily OS focused. Do you just forgo the native appearance?

johnydays 9y ago
React native renders native views using native code, so you don't really have to forgo the native appearance

lawik 9y ago

I saw a fascinating talk on Redux, I like the idea of how it manages state and the whole event sourced approach to that. I've repeatedly tried to get Redux going with either React or Vue but have found it surprisingly hard. Many outdated seed projects and installation instructions made it somewhat painful. I've played a bit with React from the more recent create-react-app and that got me started with some of it. I haven't been sold yet, I realize that I want something to cause the events and update the DOM but I haven't been sold on why React is best for that yet. Always annoying when you try to approach some tech and have a hard bounce off of it.

acemarke 9y ago
If you've got questions on using React or Redux, please feel free to drop by the Reactiflux chat channels on Discord and ask. I hang out there most evenings, and there's many others happy to help as well. The invite link is at https://www.reactiflux.com https://www.reactiflux.com. In addition, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics. It includes links for learning core Javascript (ES5), modern Javascript (ES6+), React, and much more. I also published an "Intro to React (and Redux)" presentation at http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/02/presentation-react-redux-intro/ http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/02/presentation-react-... , which is a good overview of the basic concepts for both React and Redux.