Re:Solito – React Native and Next.js unified
by gardnr on Monday March 14, 2022 @08:39PM
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How did you come up with the name? Doesn't solito mean something like "a little lonesome" in Spanish? This is two products combined, wouldn't something like "festoso" make more sense?
Re:Solito – React Native and Next.js unified
by fernandorojo on Monday March 14, 2022 @10:09PM
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Solito gives a “solo dev” the power to build for multiple platforms.
I built our entire product from scratch for iOS, Android and Web. Rather than rushing to hire a team to do each thing, I felt that if I built the right abstraction layers, it could all be done by one person.
It can be a lonely road when you’re the only one, but Solito helps you feel a little less solo
Re:Solito – React Native and Next.js unified
by desireco42 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @10:37AM
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Just to give you another perspective :) I love the name, I think it conveys what you just said. I really like direction you took and utilizing Next.js and React Native is wonderful combination.
Re:Solito – React Native and Next.js unified
by tuukkah on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:41AM
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Especially in Latin America, the diminutive is used much more widely than just to communicate "small" (noun), or "a little" (adjective). Perhaps "solito" here can be interpreted something like "quite a cowboy".
Re:Solito – React Native and Next.js unified
by redbar0n on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @09:20AM
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looking forward to Arturito ;D
Re:Solito – React Native and Next.js unified
by lpcrealmadrid on Monday March 14, 2022 @10:06PM
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Just wanted to send you a sincere thanks for all your work around RN and NextJS - your libraries and patterns have really helped our team cover a lot of ground :pray:
Re:Solito – React Native and Next.js unified
by fernandorojo on Monday March 14, 2022 @10:25PM
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Glad it's helpful!
Navigation is the hardest piece of sharing code across platforms. Web has plain URLs for navigation state, whereas apps have complex sets of nested navigation patterns (stacks, tabs, modals, drawers). By combining the approaches into a single mental model and API, devs can build for Web and Mobile with ease. This is touched on at length in the "Methodology" and "Gradual Adoption" sections of the Solito docs.
The gap between web devs and native devs is shrinking. This stack enables you to ship native apps and websites with a single codebase. I'm the only frontend engineer at our startup, and I was able to do just that as we scaled to thousands of users (see https://beatgig.com). My goal with Solito is to 1) provide the code to let others do it, and 2) perhaps more importantly, document clear patterns to deal with platform differences.