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"Solito is the missing piece for using React Native with Next.js to build powerful cross-platform apps."

What was missing though?




A solid strategy for bridging pages/urls of next.js with the screen/navigation patterns on mobile.


To help illustrate what this means, my team recently rebuilt an entire next.JS app in React native using almost identical code apart from a few browser-specific components. Since the next app was tied to the router state, we had to rewrite quite a bit of that logic in React native land, but for no added benefit to our app. It was just extra work and now extra maintenance. We tried to share as much code as we could, but that becomes an effort of its own eventually.

It seems like Solito could have prevented a significant amount of work, reduced code duplication, and let us release our mobile app a lot sooner.

If Solito does what it says well and porting to it wouldn’t be difficult, I wouldn’t be surprised if we made the move. This is a very compelling pitch to a team with a next.JS app and a React native app sharing the same business logic.




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