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Hey - (some specific feedback not covered in the form thingy )- I've been a long time windows phone user (currently sporting a lumia 950 which shares time with an ios / android device for developtment), and recently switching to software coming from a math ph.d., so maybe slightly different background than typical app developer.

I guess the biggest gap for me is windows mobile getting up to speed on the react-native stuff. In Android / Ios I can have a roughly working app in a couple days, but getting a project to the same place on windows mobile has been a bit more of a hassle. Some basic notes related to this:

1. Windows tutorials lacking for your example apps: https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows/tree/ed... (I would do a pull request myself to fix it if I had time these days)

2. These example apps should all work with the run-windows command "out-of-the-box"

3. Some simple native plugins would be great (e.g. a "windows hello" react-native module is something I would have to write if I were to make a windows mobile version of my current project)

4*. Possibly too much to ask for, but for android / ios the emulator works standalone (e.g. without xcode / android studio), in windows, I seem to need full visual studio running, which doesn't sound too bad, but beside photoshop / onenote / some other things, can make things a bit slow on a pro 2.

Unrelated, but maybe a prettier version of something like template 10? (Another project I would do myself if I had time) Comparatively, the ios / material built-in themes tend to feel much less clunky..

Hi, this is Matthew Podwysocki from the React Native Windows team here at Microsoft. I can address some of these points.

1. Yes, we are working on Windows tutorials at the moment and more detailed writeups such as how we got the F8 App from Facebook to run on RN for UWP. We've made a lot of strides lately with our React-Native CLI integration so you can do `react-native windows` and `react-native run-windows` which allows you to build and run your applications without requiring you to fire up Visual Studio.

2. We are definitely working on the examples to make sure they work out of the box with our run-windows command and will make sure that's done ASAP.

3. Yes, that's the intention to have a Hello Windows module. Right now we have a little sample that shows how to make custom controls and modules such as here: https://github.com/rozele/rn-tr23 with a map control but we will move a few to our GitHub organization to show you how its done.

4. With the React-CLI and run-windows, you should not need full Visual Studio running unless you are deploying to a device or emulator. If you are having issues with that, please file an issue and we'll get to it as soon as possible.

Unrelated: We are open to prettier templates but currently we are using the standard XAML templates which come with UWP so they have the look and feel of a common UWP app.

We're also looking at the list of the most popular React Native modules and ensuring that they work with React Native for UWP.

Awesome thanks for the hard work and feedback! yeah with respect to point 4, I mainly mentioned this because I do almost all of my app development while running the thing in an emulator - maybe you are saying it's only needed for the deployment step, and not the reload nowaways? (that would be a definite improvement) will have to check it out.

Hi divbit, Thanks for this feedback. I've passed this on to the react native windows team. And will see if I can get them in touch with you. We will see what we can do. :)

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