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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by sandGorgon on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:28PM (#22183226)
I think one of the coolest things that Shopify is doing is this:

We’re sponsoring Software Mansion and Krzysztof Magiera (co-founder of React Native for Android) in their open source efforts around React Native.

and

We are working with Discord to accelerate the open sourcing of FastList for React Native (a library which only renders list items that are in the viewport) and optimizing for Android.

Basically RecyclerView for React Native.

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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by LeoNatan25 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:03PM (#22183744)
Without synchronous view layout, it's not really possible to have a truly recycling view without many warts. We've (Wix) been hacking at this for years, and it's not possible. You either block the UI or view flash for the user if fast enough scrolling is performed.

Facebook engineering promised synchronous layout will come at some point, which will open the door to that.

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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by sandGorgon on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:52AM (#22189440)
What about Flipkart's https://github.com/Flipkart/recyclerlistview ?
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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by LeoNatan25 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @07:59AM (#22190998)
No web-only solution will give you a fully satisfactory result. It's just not possible. If you scroll fast enough, you will see either flickering or empty zones.
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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by sandGorgon on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:36AM (#22191178)
there are demos - https://github.com/Flipkart/recyclerlistview#demo
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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by rhodysurf on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:22PM (#22185986)
Theyve said Fabric comes out probably mid 2020 I think, which I am hopeful for
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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by liampronan on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:16PM (#22185918)
Is Wix moving away from React Native at this point?
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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by LeoNatan25 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:34PM (#22186715)
No
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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by liampronan on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:55PM (#22188721)
Thanks for the info - I’m a big fan and very appreciative of Wix’s RN contributions!
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