Announcing React Native 0.60

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Expo released their support web (still in beta) at the start of the month, bringing react native + API extensions to iOS/Android + web.

https://blog.expo.io/expo-sdk-v33-0-0-is-now-available-52d1c...

Ignoring the user interface, having a single JS codebase for APIs, business logic and unit tests is pretty darn exciting IMO, especially with typescript support.

What added value does react native has over Ionic and the likes?

Uses the real native UI components so you get the look, feel and performance of native UI instead of HTML recreations

Performance is not true, if measured in terms of cpu! See e.g.: http://www.insticc.org/node/TechnicalProgram/icsoft/presenta...

Great work, however I think RN will always remain a tool for experiments and toys. I now had to migrate two RN projects to native because of the many issues we encountered. The promise of "write JS, deploy anywhere easily" will never be true given how complex both iOS and Android deployment is.

Plus, javascript.

It isn't possible to write React once, and test it on all platforms, right? (iOS + Android + web)

Why doesn't the React team do an official release of https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web instead of leaving it on the community to support?

That isn’t really how the React team operates. They are more about providing a small well-functioning core and letting things like react-native-web and redux be independent libraries. The things that go into React itself and are supported by the core team are generally the things that wouldn’t work anywhere else.

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