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I invested a lot into a full React webapp - it would be great to share some of that code with mobile apps. I have an iOS background but was intending to make a

I invested a lot into a full React webapp - it would be great to share some of that code with mobile apps. I have an iOS background but was intending to make a RN app so that I could share the bulk of the React webapp code and get Android support as well. I have separation of container components and presentational SFCs so I’m thinking I could easily re-implement UI layers in RN if I wanted to without sacrificing the shared code. Do you think this is a reasonable approach? Or should I ditch RN completely and build native...? It would be nice if there was a way I could pull that shared JS logic (which really doesn’t have much dependencies) into mostly-native apps without having to adopt RN... maybe I could just repurpose the JS bridge and be aware of its limitations (a sync/serialized/batched..)

eysquared 8y ago
I do just that between a web front end I own and a RN app. We write as much pure JS as we can so we can re-use the logic. For sharing presentation, I'm hopeful for solutions like react-native-web.
ascorbic 8y ago
Just use RN. It works great for sharing non-UI code.
bigmanwalter 8y ago
Look into Cordova. It can wrap your static frontend in a multiplatform app that runs inside a chromeless web browser. Super easy to set up and use. Adobe even offers an online build service, PhoneGap Build, which can build Corodva applications for iOS without needing a Mac! I have successfully used this approach to develop applications for both Android and iOS.
- mephitix 8y ago
  Thanks. I think I might try this out first since there isn't much overhead. What's the performance like for you? Any advice you have on mitigating possible perf issues?
  - bigmanwalter 8y ago
    The Cordova browser view is almost as fast as mobile Chrome/Safari. Debugging can be tricky, as in all mobile development, but I was overall satisfied with the available tooling. If your code is performant in the browser it should fare well in Cordova.

eysquared 8y ago

I do just that between a web front end I own and a RN app. We write as much pure JS as we can so we can re-use the logic. For sharing presentation, I'm hopeful for solutions like react-native-web.

ascorbic 8y ago

Just use RN. It works great for sharing non-UI code.

bigmanwalter 8y ago

Look into Cordova. It can wrap your static frontend in a multiplatform app that runs inside a chromeless web browser. Super easy to set up and use. Adobe even offers an online build service, PhoneGap Build, which can build Corodva applications for iOS without needing a Mac! I have successfully used this approach to develop applications for both Android and iOS.

mephitix 8y ago
Thanks. I think I might try this out first since there isn't much overhead. What's the performance like for you? Any advice you have on mitigating possible perf issues?
- bigmanwalter 8y ago
  The Cordova browser view is almost as fast as mobile Chrome/Safari. Debugging can be tricky, as in all mobile development, but I was overall satisfied with the available tooling. If your code is performant in the browser it should fare well in Cordova.