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React Native moves to TypeScript template by default
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react-native
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i am sad to say that lists and tables are totally unsolved problems, look how many issues there are in react's virtualized list[1] (just an example, not picking on react) but i…
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 33 | 13 | 20 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 18 | 8 | 10 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 42 | 8 | 34 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 16 | 3 | 13 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 21 | 3 | 18 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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2 points · Open discussionReact Native moves to TypeScript template by default
3 points · Open discussionhttps://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases
React Native is still 0.x, since 2015!
In Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments PlatformAlong what metrics is the question.
As far as I know it’s:
- less popular (https://gist.github.com/tkrotoff/93f5278a4e8df7e5f6928eff986...)
- worse performance
- much more frustrating developer experience (inherently subjective but not a particularly controversial opinion)
- less supported / actively developed (some very core parts of the RN ecosystem got punted to “community supported” where they basically died in place) but also worth comparing GitHub activity for Flutter https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pulse/monthly and RN https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pulse/monthly
I think Flutter is a much better long term bet despite the fact that it’s a much newer project.
In React Native 0.69Tell HN: Apple rejecting cross platform apps (React Native, Flutter, Capacitor)
...Not on purpose, probably. This started immediately after their WWDC service downtime.
"Dear Developer,
We identified one or more issues with a recent delivery for your app, "App" 1.0.0 (2). Please correct the following issues, then upload again.
ITMS-90338: Non-public API usage - The app references non-public selectors in App: authorizationCode, createRequest, estimatedProgress, identityToken, initWithFrame:configuration:, isMainFrame, isPassthrough, navigationType, onSuccess:, removeValuesForKeys:completion:, setNavigationDelegate:, setProcessPool:, setRequestedOperation:, setRequestedScopes:, targetFrame, userContentController, viewManager, websiteDataStore. If method names in your source code match the private Apple APIs listed above, altering your method names will help prevent this app from being flagged in future submissions. In
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addition, note that one or more of the above APIs may be located in a static library that was included with your app. If so, they must be removed. For further information, visit the Technical Support Information at http://developer.apple.com/support/technical/
Best regards,
The App Store Team"
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/31507
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/105471
https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/issues/5661
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/127678