Re:Developing Our First iOS App with React Native
by aaviran on Saturday February 27, 2016 @01:53AM
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Just wanted to say Discord is awesome!
I didn't play on-line for years, last time I did regularly, the standard for voice communication was Ventrilo/Teamspeak. When I first used Discord a couple of months ago, I was just shocked. It has a decent webapp. I can create my own server for free. It takes less than a minute to get going. It just works.
Truly amazing work, keep up
Our general product iteration strategy involves building it on the web version and then porting it to iOS fairly quickly. For a chat application, our stores handle a lot of data, so it's been awesome to have that code shared.
React Native's bridge is also alright. We bridge with Component Kit for the chat messages view & WebRTC for the voice side of things fairly easy from JS.
Also, being able to update the bundle w/o doing an App Store update is pretty big too.
Here's the app if anyone wants to try it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/discord-chat-for-gamers/id98...