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You might recognize a few on this list: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html http://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html

by a13n 8y ago

saagarjha 8y ago
None of those are apps I particularly enjoy using or would want to use.
- symlinkk 8y ago
  Facebook? Instagram? Airbnb? We're talking about some of the most popular apps in the world. What exactly is your problem with them?
  - Benjammer 8y ago
    I mean, do you realize that most of the big names on that list have a hybrid solution where they prove concepts, A/B test, and rapidly iterate-on/release new features using React Native, and then they have a native dev team for each platform that goes back and re-implements most of the core features natively?
    - briandear 8y ago
      That’s correct. AirBnB’s iOS app is written mostly in Swift. And Facebook’s iOS app is a piece of shit performance wise.
    - prophesi 8y ago
      Discord is the most impressive one to me. They definitely didn't have those resources when they wrote their iOS app[0]. The Android version is just RxJava, iirc, because of some performance issues they couldn't get around. [0] https://blog.discordapp.com/using-react-native-one-year-later-91fd5e949933?gi=9cca25724807 https://blog.discordapp.com/using-react-native-one-year-late...
      - realusername 8y ago
        At that time when they released, the React Native Android was probably still in a kind of beta state.
        orbitur 8y ago
        RN Android still feels like beta.
        tazard 8y ago
        How so? I run into the occasional hiccup an iOS and Android, but overall both have been pretty smooth for me.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    None of those are apps that I'd hold up as paragons of UI design…
  - kllrnohj 8y ago
    Facebook app also has huge chunks of platform-native code, it's why they also have things like Litho: https://fblitho.com/ https://fblitho.com/ And according to their announcement post Litho is what they are using for their News Feed: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1187475984695956/open-sourcing-litho-a-declarative-ui-framework-for-android/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/1187475984695956/open-sourci... So the most critical part of the Facebook app isn't in React Native. How much of those other apps are actually using React Native?
  - jcelerier 8y ago
    they are the most popular because they are needed to access a service. But they are all a fucking pain to use.
    - int_handler 8y ago
      Can you give some examples of popular apps that are not "a fucking pain to use?"
    - symlinkk 8y ago
      How are they a "fucking pain to use"? I have never heard an average person complain about Instagram's UI. It's fine. It's good, even.
dilap 8y ago
yeah, the question still stands. instagram is a particularly nice example of what i'm talking about: it was much snappier pre-fb aquisition. (tho of course hard to know how much of that if any is the fault of react native or other things changing.)

You might recognize a few on this list: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html http://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html

by a13n 8y ago

You might recognize a few on this list: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html http://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html

saagarjha 8y ago

None of those are apps I particularly enjoy using or would want to use.

symlinkk 8y ago
Facebook? Instagram? Airbnb? We're talking about some of the most popular apps in the world. What exactly is your problem with them?
- Benjammer 8y ago
  I mean, do you realize that most of the big names on that list have a hybrid solution where they prove concepts, A/B test, and rapidly iterate-on/release new features using React Native, and then they have a native dev team for each platform that goes back and re-implements most of the core features natively?
  - briandear 8y ago
    That’s correct. AirBnB’s iOS app is written mostly in Swift. And Facebook’s iOS app is a piece of shit performance wise.
  - prophesi 8y ago
    Discord is the most impressive one to me. They definitely didn't have those resources when they wrote their iOS app[0]. The Android version is just RxJava, iirc, because of some performance issues they couldn't get around. [0] https://blog.discordapp.com/using-react-native-one-year-later-91fd5e949933?gi=9cca25724807 https://blog.discordapp.com/using-react-native-one-year-late...
    - realusername 8y ago
      At that time when they released, the React Native Android was probably still in a kind of beta state.
      - orbitur 8y ago
        RN Android still feels like beta.
        tazard 8y ago
        How so? I run into the occasional hiccup an iOS and Android, but overall both have been pretty smooth for me.
- saagarjha 8y ago
  None of those are apps that I'd hold up as paragons of UI design…
- kllrnohj 8y ago
  Facebook app also has huge chunks of platform-native code, it's why they also have things like Litho: https://fblitho.com/ https://fblitho.com/ And according to their announcement post Litho is what they are using for their News Feed: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1187475984695956/open-sourcing-litho-a-declarative-ui-framework-for-android/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/1187475984695956/open-sourci... So the most critical part of the Facebook app isn't in React Native. How much of those other apps are actually using React Native?
- jcelerier 8y ago
  they are the most popular because they are needed to access a service. But they are all a fucking pain to use.
  - int_handler 8y ago
    Can you give some examples of popular apps that are not "a fucking pain to use?"
  - symlinkk 8y ago
    How are they a "fucking pain to use"? I have never heard an average person complain about Instagram's UI. It's fine. It's good, even.

dilap 8y ago

yeah, the question still stands. instagram is a particularly nice example of what i'm talking about: it was much snappier pre-fb aquisition. (tho of course hard to know how much of that if any is the fault of react native or other things changing.)