- What’s your biggest pain-point in React Native? What would be a game-changer for you?
- A fully featured runtime environment, perhaps like node or at least wintertc's minimum common api. Also, complete Intl support. Finding, learning, and managing dependencies that (sometimes only partially) fill these gaps is quite a burden.Jan 13, 2025 13:38
- I do like Node.js but it's bulky if you're only making use of one or two APIs. Interestingly a Node.js mobile <-> React Native bridge has been available for 7 years, last updated 3 months ago: code.janeasystems.com/nodejs-mobil... Microsoft have a fancier integration: github.com/nodejs/node/...
- Bulkiness is the point, I guess. RN's runtime feels so incredibly thin compared to node, deno, browsers. Filling the gaps with libs is hard, especially when a lib takes a bespoke approach that has precedent in node. re: node <-> RN bridge: don't need yet another js env running in the app. yikes!
