AFAIK, React is a Single-Page Web Application that refreshes everytime something changes. It’s benefits are fast load times and lower overhead because it ONLY updates things that are changed on re-render, but the downsides are that it relies on other libraries for things like multiple pages, etc.
So for it to be a Windows System application, yes that’s fucking attrocious. Did you ever hear how angry people were about the Warcraft 3 update that added a bunch of webapp nonsense and bricked a lot of people’s old copies? Well, that’s basically what Windows 11 did.
React Native can be built for, not only mobile targets, but multiple platforms, such as Windows, tvs,…, or even the web, trying to use as much native implementations as possible.
Now, should you?, that’s a different discussion…
Okay, the cross platform part makes it make a little sense. They’re trying to push everything over to arm (again!) and having something easy to cross compile would help… But, you know … The start menu is small potatoes compared to gestures at the rest of Windows …
AFAIK, React is a Single-Page Web Application that refreshes everytime something changes. It’s benefits are fast load times and lower overhead because it ONLY updates things that are changed on re-render, but the downsides are that it relies on other libraries for things like multiple pages, etc.
So for it to be a Windows System application, yes that’s fucking attrocious. Did you ever hear how angry people were about the Warcraft 3 update that added a bunch of webapp nonsense and bricked a lot of people’s old copies? Well, that’s basically what Windows 11 did.
I’m confused though. The op says “react native”, but AFAIK, react native is a mobile app framework.
Does it work/deploy on desktop now?
React Native can be built for, not only mobile targets, but multiple platforms, such as Windows, tvs,…, or even the web, trying to use as much native implementations as possible. Now, should you?, that’s a different discussion…
Okay, the cross platform part makes it make a little sense. They’re trying to push everything over to arm (again!) and having something easy to cross compile would help… But, you know … The start menu is small potatoes compared to gestures at the rest of Windows …
Yes, there’s support for compiling React Native to UWP apps for Windows. No, I don’t know why anyone thought that was a good idea.