react-devtools

ing babel, you can get jsx and flowtype for free. It's ridiculous to try and build a JS app without some sort of bundler, whether it's browserify or webpack. And if you're gonna use a bundler, pulling in a transpiler like babel is really easy and it lets you write much saner code. Oh, and if you're already drinking the Facebook kool-aid with react, jsx, and flowtype, you'll wanna give nuclide a shot. As I understand it, it has nice flow support, with stuff like "click-to-define" and inline linting [3]. I'm using flowtype annotations with the babel plugin I mentioned above, but due to my usage of non-standard features, I can't successfully run flow itself over my codebase. I'll also note that my experience with nuclide when I last tried it was underwhelming. [0] https://github.com/facebook/react-devtools/ [1] http://flowtype.org/ [2] https://github.com/codemix/babel-plugin-typecheck [3] http://nuclide.io/docs/flow/

avigatorIOS is better out of the box than Navigator. The reason for this is that the animations for the transitions are done entirely on the main thread, and so they are not interrupted by frame drops on the JavaScript thread. (Read about why you should probably use Navigator anyways.)" "... As mentioned above, Navigator animations are controlled by the JavaScript thread. Imagine the "push from right" scene transition: each frame, the new scene is moved from the right to left, starting offscreen (let's say at an x-offset of 320) and ultimately settling when the scene sits at an x-offset of 0. Each frame during this transition, the JavaScript thread needs to send a new x-offset to the main thread. If the JavaScript thread is locked up, it cannot do this and so no update occurs on that frame and the animation stutters." https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/navigator-compa... Regarding the native-styled and higher-performing NavigatorIOS: "Development belongs to open-source community - not used by the React Native team on their apps. A result of this is that there is currently a backlog of unresolved bugs, nobody who uses this has stepped up to take ownership for it yet." Disclaimer: this comment is written by a consultant undergoing high levels of frustration and may have traces of FUD. If React Native works well for you, I would love to hear about it. Edit: I was really hoping to do some good work on the app today. The frustrating problem this time is that the devtools are entirely broken due to a commit made back in September. https://github.com/facebook/react-devtools/issues/229 "I don't know how to fix this. I now remember that this is why we didn't merge that RN pull request originally." UGH. Shoot me.