On: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

[mijoharas]

I'm probably in that camp too, I thought it was just for android and iOS still (even though I consider myself to keep up to date with these types of things).

Do you know if they have anything for linux yet?

[savanaly → mijoharas]

I originally thought React Native was for all platforms, then I read their website and docs which made me realize it was only for mobile. That all went down a few weeks ago. Now, today, I find out I had it right the first time. How big a shortcoming is it of their website that it made me go away thinking it was something it wasn't when I had the right thing in mind?

[mijoharas → savanaly]

Same here, it makes me wonder how hard it is to build for all the platforms as well given that they are all spread out across so many different repos.

[migueloller → mijoharas]

There's some early work for Ubuntu here [1].

You can also currently use React to share code across iOS [2], Android [3], UWP [4], macOS [5], web [6], VR [7] and a bunch of other stuff that is there mostly for fun (like React Hardware [8] and React Sketch.app [9]).

There's also experimental work on defining a set of primitives that works across all of these platforms [10].

[1] https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/react-native/blob/ubuntu/REA...

[2] https://github.com/facebook/react-native

[3] https://github.com/facebook/react-native

[4] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows

[5] https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos

[6] https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web

[7] https://github.com/facebook/react-vr

[8] https://github.com/iamdustan/react-hardware

[9] https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-sketchapp

[10] https://github.com/lelandrichardson/react-primitives