Electron VS react-native

Repository: Electron

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The team at Electron have been faithfully shipping new releases almost every single month. I think they had Christmas off 🤔. This popular framework has developers writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. The latest update depreciates some process events, and added new modules, APIs, methods, and more. Read into all the changes in the Electron release notes. This month, Electron also introduced a new formal RFC process.

VS Code has been crashing at launch in Wayland since more than eight months ago:

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/37531

So we talked a lot about the Atomic Design Principle, but you could just use that in any system and start creating. You could have Angular components, React Components, and Vue Components. But if you notice these don't easily work Everwhere. So the solution is to use Web Components because the modern browser can already understand these, and any Front-End framework can then utilize these components. You can use Electron for desktop (Slack, VSCode), PWA for both Android and iOS, and across all browsers Can I Use.

I'm noticing a significant boost in performance, crisper text, and better power savings. The only shortcoming is that the window which Figma will run on will lose its shadow. This is due to a technical limitation with frameless windows on Linux.

For the longest time, building desktop apps was a daunting task to web developers. That is, until technologies like Electron made creating these apps more approachable to a wider audience. Today, we’ve got a wide array of native applications built with solutions like Electron, Tauri, Capacitor, and many more. While these are great solutions, sometimes configuration can be tricky and the applications we create can become somewhat bloated in terms of memory usage.

Electron patch for version 27: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/39823

Before diving into the specifics of React.js and React Native, it’s crucial to understand how web and mobile development differ.

Understanding how React Native renders components is essential for building efficient and performant applications. When a component’s state or props change, React automatically updates the User Interface(UI) to reflect those changes. As a result, React calls the component's render method again to generate the updated UI representation.

This template was built using a variety of powerful frameworks and tools, including: .NET, Ngrok, JWT (JSON Web Tokens), Entity Framework, AutoMapper, FluentValidation, Flurl, Humanizer, libphonenumber-csharp, MailKit, OAuth, Serilog, Twilio, Swagger, React.js, React Native, React Navigation, Axios, Expo Dev, Lodash, NativeWind, React Hook Form, Zustand, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Android Studio, Git, GitHub Copilot, Node.js, React Native Paper, NextUI

I am not going into much details about the usage of these two here as you can get well documented examples in the official React Native Documentation [https://reactnative.dev/]

React Native enables you to build mobile applications using only JavaScript and React.

apps/native: a react-native app built with expo

React Native: reactnative.dev

React Native Documentation GitHub Actions Documentation Azure App Service Documentation

When taking about cross-platform flexibility, Svelte also has Svelte Native like the way React has React Native for mobile app development.

1. React Native: Transition into Mobile Development with React Native, allowing you to reuse JavaScript knowledge. The official React Native documentation is a good starting point.