victoriasun

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by victoriasun 8y ago
Actually, behavioral symmetry is not an issue with React Native so much as its an issue with poor UX design. Nothing about RN mandates that the apps behave similarly. That the iOS app and the desktop app look and behave similarly is simply
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Personally I have found that RN does require some amount of native platform knowledge to be successful. However, the bulk of our app is actually in React Native. The times we've had to bridge into native is mostly around our voice modu
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Discord is actually an extremely complex app and run almost entirely off React Native, with 2 engineers, only 1 of which who is an iOS expert :P! We have millions of users, and we typically rank in the top 10 of Social Networking on the iOS
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Since OTA updates can only impact JS, we can offer a button that essentially calls something like `window.refresh` and it reloads the JS bundle within the container. We actually recently leveraged ErrorBoundaries in React 16 to do somethi
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by victoriasun 8y ago
No, we do not share Views with web. All view logic is custom on each platform. - a Discord iOS engineer
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Apple allows updates to Javascript outside of the review process as long as it subscribes to certain guidelines (1), including but not limited to: not changing core feature functionality, being limited to bug fixes, and also that the app do
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by victoriasun 8y ago
Hi! Not Fanghao but another Discord iOS engineer. We wrote our own library for OTA updates but React Native Code Push ( https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-code-push ) is a pretty reasonable out of the box solution
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by victoriasun 8y ago
tbh the fact that you made a throwaway to bully a random person on the internet is even more hilarious
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by victoriasun 8y ago
I was an Ads PM at Google several years ago. While there are many reasons I personally disliked working there, how Google handles the ethical concern of advertising and Search is not one of them. Google cares about being Search first. Ads a
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by victoriasun 9y ago
I like blog posts like this in theory (I too, learned Redux by making a mental mapping of MVC <-> Redux) but when it's all said and done, it truly breaks down quite rapidly. Honestly this could have been 'Elixir GenServer Ex
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by victoriasun 9y ago
Totally agreed! I think she nailed the name.
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by victoriasun 9y ago
Cool product! I have two bits of UX feedback: 1) in step 2, after you click on Yes/No/Don't Know, there isn't enough feedback in the product that indicates that you successfully answered the question. I originally though