reactxp

I mean, React Native is not a bad choice for a "new notepad", similar to how they did with the calculator. It can even get the "Microsoft OpenSource Project" seal. See ReactXP[1] a library for React Native from Microsoft Speaking about the calculator app, did you know it is OpenSource[2]? You can only compile to windows as of now though [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator

> Maybe someone will make a react-qt project. There's https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop It'd be nice to have a React Native for GTK though. There's https://github.com/Place1/react-native-gtk but it's abandoned. React Native for GTK might get ReactXP natively onto Linux: https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp/issues/41

this is great news. Does anybody know if this will translate to chromium based web toolkits (eg QT), and MS Edge (soon to be based on chromium), and therefore, React-XP [1] ? [1]https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp

It's an Open Source project so maybe community members will add support for those other platforms? Quick search of the project issues shows that macOS is already mostly supported: https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp/issues/19 It looks the project leads want more consensus on Linux React Native (ie, something actively maintained and preferably merged to mainline React Native support): https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp/issues/41

There's mention of MacOS in the codebase and a few PRs but there are no samples or documentation on getting it working, which is a little frustrating. https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp/issues/19#issuecomment-...

For sharing code (even view code) between React Native and React web projects, also consider Microsoft's ReactXP project[1]. It is very actively developed and might be what you're looking for. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp

There has been active public development on ReactXP [1] for months now. It supposedly works with React-Native and React-Native-[Windows|macos]. Considering the amount of work being done in public on React-Native-Windows [2], it looks like this is turning into one of their (intended or not) version of cross-platform (using web technologies) dev stack. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows

> Nothing stopping it, nope. I'm surprised there isn't something currently. There is - ironically, by the owners of Xamarin: https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/ Hadn't heard of it practically at all since the initial announcement. It seems it's a very small team: https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp/pulse

XAML is a template, it hooks into a controller via bindings. You could compare it to Angular maybe. In React a view is a function of state: const Header = ({ color, children }) => <h1 style={{ color }}>{children}</h1> // Gets transpiled into: const Header = ({ color, children }) => createElement('h1', { style: { color } }, children) <Header color="red">hello</Header> A large part of my career was about XAML/WPF/SL. I know it took me a year or more to really understand it deeply, being able to extend and do everything i wanted. I came to the same state 60 minutes into React. The pattern behind it does make many things easier. And that is an understatement. I believe that's also the main reason Microsoft itself is betting on React for cross platform and native apps as well as extension eco systems: https://github.

And also this (cross-plat React Native for Windows/iOS/Android): https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp

There's a hello world in the samples directory https://github.com/microsoft/reactxp