I had been working on a side project iOS app for years using Objective-C, then Swift came out and I started rewriting the whole thing in Swift and continued working on it for months... Few days ago while I was just playing with react-native I accidentally finished the whole thing in a few hours... Feel kinda stupid for wasting all those years

The likely reason that you did it in a few hours with react native is because you have done it in objc and swift before. Sure react is powerful and swift is a sweet little language but unfair comparison is still unfair.

I keep hearing good things about react native. Have to give it a try. Thanks

any one knows an android app done in react native? would really like to try it to see how it performs on a phone

@pirhanas https://facebook.github.io/react-na...

I'm going to start a react native project right now so this is encouraging, and hey shit happens, tech advances, at least you are willing to keep learning

@reduxtris hey, I've been playing with react-native for the past few months and want to share what I've learned, react-native is perfect for fast prototyping or making simple apps with a few views and standard functionality, but if you wanna make a heavy app with lots of views, location, map, photos, permissions, notifications etc. you'll have a difficult time dealing with 3rd party libraries and keeping up with versioning etc. its not a maintainable tech yet

@soheil interesting, yeah I am making just a simple app to toy around with it. I think devRant is built with it and this is much more complex than what I will be doing. Thank you for sharing your experience :)

Setting up React Native turned out to be a pain in the ass! Realized that I needed to install iOS 7 and update the default node version (just calling nvm use 6 didn't work!) in order to get anything to play kind of nicely. In fact I'm still trying to get all these dependencies in line o.o