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Blog title lacks iOS: "Building Digs, an offline Discogs companion" And it's a RN app: > It’s a React Native app built with Expo and TypeScript. Data lives in
by hu3 7mo ago
Blog title lacks iOS: "Building Digs, an offline Discogs companion"
And it's a RN app:
> It’s a React Native app built with Expo and TypeScript. Data lives in SQLite.
- ZeWaka 7mo agoWhat's wrong with React Native? I don't quite get your point there.
- Insanity 7mo agoSpeculating - but an iOS app that's build on React Native is not really a 'native iOS app'. Which might have some performance implications etc. Just speculating, I've not done mobile development since before RN was even a thing.
- skydhash 7mo agoRN does use a lot of native code. It’s not based on a webview like Electron is. Most of the builtin components are native views and there’s no CSS. The JS engine is also simpler. It’s more akin to the lua runtime in Neovim.
- Insanity 7mo agoAh, I did not know that. I thought it was more Electron-like.
- davidhariri 7mo agoIt’s a fair assumption. The React part is more about copying JSX and other React concepts (declarative UI etc) but it all boils down to native binaries. The toolchain is also pretty nice. It does hot reloading so you don’t have to recompile the app while building locally. The downside is you get less for free compared to SwiftUI. But SwiftUI also has many footguns and bugs. No free lunch!
- rlustin 7mo agoFunny enough this was my first mobile app ever, I figured it out doing it. Expo helped a lot. The Apple review process on the other hand… that was a whole learning experience on its own.
- coffeecantcode 7mo agoGod I feel you here, that first review is always brutal.
- monster_truck 7mo agoQuite a lot. Enough that it isn't realistic to ask this in good faith
- rlustin 7mo agoFair enough on the iOS mention. The tech stack (React Native, Expo, TypeScript, SQLite) is detailed in the blog post, I wasn't trying to hide it. As others pointed out in the thread, RN renders actual native views, not a webview. For this use case: browsing a local SQLite database offline, it works really well.