RBrboyd·Nov 5, 2018
In Ask HN: What framework for a cross-platform menu-bar app?status-im
react-native-desktop-qt
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status-im / react-native-desktop-qt
react-native-desktop-qt
A Desktop port of React Native, driven by Qt, forked from Canonical
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- microsoft/react-native-windows · linked in 4 of the same discussions
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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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.
In So, if not Electron apps, then what?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
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exists but nobody really considers it unless Electron is 100% out of the question" option. There's simply too much momentum in terms of new UI components/capabilities/what-have-you that the browser runtime brings to the table that Qt (be it SDK or community built components) cannot match.
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
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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
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some cases even everyday eco-system packages can be applied. For instance: https://github.com/gaearon/react-blessed-hot-motion (native console app using plain react-motion to move stuff around).