react-native-desktop-qt

I have to use Discord and Element on a regular basis (which both use Electron). They both use an unreasonable amount of RAM, and I feel this even more as my laptop is quite old and has 4GB of RAM. I keep looking for alternatives to Electron, which wouldn't require such heavy resources to run, but my searches always seem to come up short. There are a number of solutions that are either dead or are not ready for production yet, such as React NodeGUI[0], Proton Native[1] or react-native-desktop-qt[2]. There's react-native-windows, but I'm not running Windows, and even if that did gain Linux compatibility it seems that they're quite focused on Microsoft-owned platforms. Is "just stick Chromium into all your apps" seriously the best we can do as an industry? It's resource-inefficient to high heaven, not to mention that it's slow and doesn't in

I went digging a bit, and there's work being done to making it possible to use react-native for cross-platform desktop apps too: https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop-qt Doesn't look production-ready yet, but seems promising.

Thanks for the comment - I wasn't aware of Catalyst, or that React Native is now actively integrating with it to support building native apps that run on iOS + macOS. Here's the most prominent issue I found that's tracking progress: https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-pr... It does require macOS 10.15, so I imagine it will take time for the late majority and laggards (I am one) to catch up to the latest goodness. --- As much flak as Electron gets, I think it serves/served a purpose by opening up cross-platform app development to a wider audience, lowering the bar for better or worse. Commonly raised complaints about CPU/memory usage, file size, non-native UI, seem unavoidable due to the need of bundling Chromium. (Unless someone figures out a standard way to use a single shared install of the runtime.) With React Nat

I can't suggest anything, I'm afraid—I haven't worked with Windows and Linux targets using React Native. But it appears that there are React Native rendering targets for Windows and Linux (https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows and https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop). I'd probably start by looking there. And of course, because React Native can build to web, one could ship Electron apps for platforms with lower priority for your business.

Last time I checked (a year ago), only Qt supported all 5 major native platorms: Linux/Mac/Windows and Android/iOS. Maybe also React Native, if you count [1] (Qt backend) or [2] (libui). Now it looks like Flutter started to support desktop recently. And that's it, I think. [1]: https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop [2]: https://github.com/kusti8/proton-native

> 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

I was aware, but I don't recall those projects being very active. Additionally, IIRC they're both implementing their UI widgets differently rather than trying to build a common API that is desktop agnostic. There also is this project: https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop which seems somewhat more active, and also supports linux (which is much more important to me than windows support).

Has anyone tried react-native-desktop that uses QT? What are your experiences? https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop

https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop perhaps?

People are trying https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop But without top-level standardisation effort it will not work.

Moving on from the same tired argument that pops up in every thread concerning this topic... if the Qt crowd really cares about this (be it memory usage, etc), you'd think they'd do more to say, make React Native just compile down to Qt. There's even project(s, or at least one) out there that seem to have had this idea (https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop), but few people working on them. I would be 100% unsurprised to see no Electron people doing this, so if you really want to see an alternative, and are looking for cool open source projects to devote time to, maybe something worth considering. It's not an easy feat at all - this thread alone (https://github.com/status-im/ideas/issues/34) kind of explains why. In my opinion, this is unlikely to ever take off in any serious form, and Qt will continue to generally be the "it

It also irks me that that list was shared as an image. For me, it's just an inconvenience. For others, it's an accessibility problem, at least until OCR is 100% accurate. Anyway, here's the list (I tested all the URLs): Windows: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows macOS: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos Linux (Qt): https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop AR: https://github.com/HippoAR/react-native-arkit VR: https://facebook.github.io/react-vr/ TV: https://github.com/react-tv/react-tv Shell consoles: https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed Word: https://github.com/nitin42/redocx PDF: https://github.com/diegomura/react-pdf 3D: https://github.com/Izzimach/react-three Sketch app: http://airbnb.io/react-sketchapp/ Keynote: https://twitter.com/nishb1/status/913744410537537536 Hardware: https://github.com

Not just mobile apps: Windows: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows Macos: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos Linux (Qt): https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop AR: https://github.com/HippoAR/react-native-arkit VR: https://facebook.github.io/react-vr/ TV: https://github.com/react-tv/react-tv Shell consoles: https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed Word: https://github.com/nitin42/redocx Pdf: https://github.com/diegomura/react-pdf 3d: https://github.com/Izzimach/react-three Sketchapp: http://airbnb.io/react-sketchapp/ Keynote: https://twitter.com/nishb1/status/913744410537537536 Hardware: https://github.com/iamdustan/react-hardware Samplers: https://twitter.com/GabeRicard/status/911989894267973633 And so on ... Finally being able to transfer knowledge and code, and due to the generic nature of React in