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by brentvatne 10y ago
Hi there! I work on Exponent. We intentionally chose to not let users drop down to native -- the idea of having an interpreted language that sits on top of a native runtime on multiple platforms is not a new one, and it allows for so many b
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by brentvatne 10y ago
- No clear roadmap Indeed this would be nice to have! - No guarantees from Facebook about longevity As more products within Facebook (eg: Instagram) and companies outside of Facebook are depending on this (Airbnb, Netflix, Alibaba, Microsof
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by brentvatne 10y ago
import React from 'react'; import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'; function App(props) { return <div>Hello {props.name}</div>; } ReactDOM.render( <App name="nichochar" />, document.g
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by brentvatne 10y ago
The Discord iOS app is fantastic! It's a great example of dropping down from JS to native to implement features that aren't yet possible with just JS (in this case, smooth animations while simultaneously doing work in JS and a cha
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by brentvatne 11y ago
The short answer is that UITableView is an inherently synchronous API whereas the React Native bridge is asynchronous -- UITableView calls cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath: and heightForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath: and you need to respond synch
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by brentvatne 11y ago
For people who read this and are curious for more perspective on React Native and Titanium, there's a nice discussion here on the React Native Community Facebook Group with a developer who used to work at Appcelerator and now runs an a
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by brentvatne 11y ago
Plenty of people! See: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html This isn't even a comprehensive list as it doesn't include apps like TaskRabbit Tasker App ( http://tech.taskrabbit.com&#
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by brentvatne 11y ago
React Native uses a site called ProductPains for people to report the issues that they run into and upvote them, it can give you a good idea of what the problems are: https://productpains.com/product/react-native?tab=to
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by brentvatne 11y ago
Also see: https://ericroz.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/f8-app-on-windows-1... > Excluding all the work on core and third party module parity, and store preparation, there was certainly less than 1 week of 1 de
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by brentvatne 11y ago
Where can I find side-by-side benchmarks for Chakra, JavaScriptCore and V8?
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by brentvatne 11y ago
Cool stuff! ajwhite put something similar together with an old Android tablet and React Native: https://github.com/ajwhite/MagicMirror
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by brentvatne 11y ago
Great point, I suppose I was just judging it entirely on the end result.
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by brentvatne 11y ago
A couple of weeks ago I dropped off my well-used, out of warranty, never on AppleCare early-2012 macbook pro to get the keyboard replaced. It turned out that this repair would also, by necessity, replace the battery (it is part of the &quot
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CodePush by Microsoft – update your React Native and Cordova apps instantly(microsoft.github.io)
13 points by brentvatne 11y ago|1 comments
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by brentvatne 11y ago
Not sure why so many downvotes -- they build an in-memory representation of the content of the contenteditable, intercept input events to update that representation, and use that to update the actual dom. Presumably they wouldn't just
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by brentvatne 11y ago
Very neat -- seems like React for textarea
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by brentvatne 11y ago
Looks fantastic, thanks! FYI I shared this in Slack and the preview showed up like as "Learn How to Build Fast and Efficient Meteor Apps" - screenshot: http://url.brentvatne.ca/VYvi.png
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by brentvatne 11y ago
- You can determine the platform with React.Platform -- eg: var React = require('react-native'); var { Platform } = React; if (Platform.OS === 'ios') { // lol steve jobs } else { // lol rob
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by brentvatne 11y ago
`adb reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081` works like a charm for me
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React Native running on tvOS(github.com)
15 points by brentvatne 11y ago|1 comments
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How Facebook Focuses on the Most Important Element of an App(nerds.airbnb.com)
1 points by brentvatne 11y ago|0 comments
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by brentvatne 11y ago
> Because it's built on the assumption that just because DOM access is slow, then it's a good idea to just add another layer of JS in order to provide a cached-like faster DOM access speed, rather than focusing on fixing DOM ac
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by brentvatne 11y ago
Since playing this from 2000-2002 I have all but quit gaming. Ultima Online ruined other games for me in the best way possible. I have tried to play various MMOs since but none of them come close to having the same freedom that UO offered.
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by brentvatne 11y ago
I agree that open-source is definitely missing from this if it is considered from the perspective of a software developer. "Should I work for free?" is a simple and easy to remember title but it is an oversimplification when the a
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by brentvatne 11y ago
Hi grandalf! Which sections do you think are most lacking in the react native documentation? I've put some time into improving it this week by adding: - https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/animations.
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“What Is Rust?” talk by Yehuda Katz(infoq.com)
5 points by brentvatne 11y ago|0 comments
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by brentvatne 11y ago
Used this in my presentation on React Native the other day ( http://brentvatne.ca/react-native-intro-talk/ ) as it demos beautifully how Flexbox fixes some persistent CSS layout problems, thanks! With vjeux's css-la
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React Native 0.4.3(github.com)
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by brentvatne 12y ago
This type of functionality is built into cljs.test, for example: https://github.com/r0man/cljs-http/blob/master/test/cljs_htt...
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Facebook Login Example App for React Native(github.com)
2 points by brentvatne 12y ago|0 comments

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