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Would React Native not be a better choice and more open? It's based on existing widely used JS technologies, it is fast, and doesn't have the drawbacks of elect
by antihero 6y ago
Would React Native not be a better choice and more open? It's based on existing widely used JS technologies, it is fast, and doesn't have the drawbacks of electron, and you can easily develop for mobile as well.
There are a couple actively maintained projects for RN on desktop such as:
https://proton-native.js.org/#/ https://proton-native.js.org/#/
https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/ https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/ (though this lacks Linux support at the moment).
There's also React NodeGUI, however I don't think people care about having native buttons etc as much (as evidenced by VSCode, Slack, etc, and the plethora of other successful Electron apps) any more.
https://react.nodegui.org/ https://react.nodegui.org/
- mikewhy 6y agoCanonical already went down this route, but I'm not sure why it was abandoned: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/react-native https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/react-native