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0 pointspjmlp4y ago0 comments

Have the UI defined in JSON or whatever rocks your boat, even HTML, but then map those concepts to native widgets.

Some native apps on Android/iOS do exactly this, with UI coming from Web API calls.

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Isn't this exactly what a system like react-native provides? Just off the shelf for commom patterns, and backed by a turing complete language. If you have yo build out the UI toolkit yourself yhen you haven't really saved much.

pjmlpOP4y ago

Not at all because it isn't native to the platform.

These solutions use the native SDKs of the platform directly.

So you are e.g. using Java/Kotlin on Android and Swift/Objective-C on iOS.

React native brings JavaScript and VM for the ride.

nicoburns4y ago

Is a JavaScript VM really that different to intepreted JSON files? With react-native, the UI controls are using the platform native toolkits, there's just an abstraction layer on top.

Checkout https://github.com/gorhom/react-native-bottom-sheet for example.

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0 pointspjmlp4y ago0 comments

Have the UI defined in JSON or whatever rocks your boat, even HTML, but then map those concepts to native widgets.

Some native apps on Android/iOS do exactly this, with UI coming from Web API calls.

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nicoburns4y ago

pjmlpOP4y ago

Not at all because it isn't native to the platform.

These solutions use the native SDKs of the platform directly.

So you are e.g. using Java/Kotlin on Android and Swift/Objective-C on iOS.

React native brings JavaScript and VM for the ride.

nicoburns4y ago

Is a JavaScript VM really that different to intepreted JSON files? With react-native, the UI controls are using the platform native toolkits, there's just an abstraction layer on top.

Checkout https://github.com/gorhom/react-native-bottom-sheet for example.

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