React Native: Initial Thoughts

Re:React Native: Initial Thoughts by jk5_ on Monday March 30, 2015 @08:57AM (#9289145)

> Flexbox. The authors missed the opportunity of offering a saner API and favored sticking to the official spec instead.

This is located in « The Meh » section. IMHO, it should be in the « The Good ». Using the official spec instead of reinventing the wheel is always a good move.

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Re:React Native: Initial Thoughts by Cshelton on Monday March 30, 2015 @09:34AM (#9289353)

I think in either the first or second keynote back to when React native was announced they talked about their reasoning behind using flexbox. I think it's also 'the good'. They were able to use a web technology and make it work in react native just as if it's the browser, pretty impressive. If they had to come up with their own 'css' style layout api I would then have put it in 'the bad' myself.

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Re:React Native: Initial Thoughts by pestaa on Monday March 30, 2015 @09:05AM (#9289177)

Agreed, though it must be stated flexbox is not yet a fully implemented and deployed API, and most certainly not the easiest to use (but it is not for a trivial problem anyway.)

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Re:React Native: Initial Thoughts by thomasfoster96 on Monday March 30, 2015 @09:24AM (#9289272)

Id really like to know what a better flexbox api would be like.

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