• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Apps are going to be written in React Native

    So despite the desire for one, Vega won’t be an Android-killer, won’t bring an influx of big name apps to benefit regular Linux distros, nor see Amazon do something crazy cool like create its own Linux tablet UI.

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      8 months ago

      You know how much overhead Electron apps are? Well, here’s React Native! Enjoy all the annoyances of mobile development with the ugliest that is React!

      (I kid. Or am I?)

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        8 months ago

        It actually works pretty great, it genuinely does compile to native code pretty well. The js code just drives - everything visual or I/O is native, so it’s faster than you’d think

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      Apps are going to be written in React Native

      Idk if I’m the only person who thinks this, but I feel like React has gotten worse over the last couple of major versions. Not only does the code look a lot messier when you use their new syntax, but the end result seems unreliable. Facebook is barely even usable now. Their history management is laughable, and it’ll drop you out of the site randomly when using the back buttons. I used to think React was really neat, but I’m not a big fan anymore. There’s too much re-engineering for problems that were solved decades ago.

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        8 months ago

        Damn…I’m trying to modernize my personal app’s UI and I thought react was the shit. What is the recommended framework now?

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          If you like it, then use it. There’s no point in jumping every time some new framework comes out. Most of them don’t last. I have used React off and on since it came out, and I personally don’t like how the syntax has changed. My personal website is React and doesn’t have any browser history issues. Idk what’s up with Facebook history management. I guess they just don’t care very much because they’re too busy trying to gobble up data.

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            Honestly this. You’ll rebuild it in a few years anyways.

            If you absolutely want your project to survive after 15 years…

            Either web components using vanilla, or hell, just go jquery. Jquery is impossible to kill.