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Re:Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps by pknopf on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @11:46AM (#16475182)
> being a "React Forms" or whatever that does the same thing, is there?

Nothing stopping it, nope. I'm surprised there isn't something currently.

That said, it isn't so bad using different render functions for different platforms. The state management and event handling should be 100% consistent.

Besides, going all in on a single render engine limits you to creating special "holes" to utilize controls native to the platform. Im not sure if flutter supports this, but I doubt it.

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Re:Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps by piaste on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:42PM (#16476493)
> Nothing stopping it, nope. I'm surprised there isn't something currently.

There is - ironically, by the owners of Xamarin:

https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/

Hadn't heard of it practically at all since the initial announcement. It seems it's a very small team: https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp/pulse

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Re:Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps by cwyers on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:15PM (#16476239)
Sure. It just seems odd to list "Flutter could do X" as a benefit if React could do it, too. Yes, React doesn't do it yet, but it also could.
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