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It is very exciting to see more people write frameworks using "React" ideas. This will make React and similar frameworks better! It seems like one of the bigge
by tallowen 9y ago
It is very exciting to see more people write frameworks using "React" ideas. This will make React and similar frameworks better!
It seems like one of the biggest ideas that flutter brings to the table is a different approach to component libraries. It makes sense that there is a need for this given that larger companies that invest in React tend to have their own tailored component library that people outside of those companies generally don't get to take advantage of. The startup costs to developing your own library of React components and their CSS/Native wrappers are high.
That being said, when I think of prebuilt component libraries (eg, bootstrap, swing) I generally think of components that are too familiar for users and a crutch for developers to allow them to quickly develop interface code where they may not be an expert. In a high quality app, I would expect widgets to follow the patterns that other apps on the platform follow. Won't this be difficult for a framework like Flutter which will have to re-create each of these native widgets (as apposed to React native where they are just wrapped in a JS layer)?
Regardless of these qualms, I'm excited to see more well funded frameworks enter this space because I'm sure that all users of frameworks in this space will benefit. I will be on the look out for more complex uses of this framework to see how people overcome these types of issues!