react-native-web VS Flutter

maybe https://necolas.github.io/react-native-web/? https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/examples/with-react-native-web/README.md

I am following a tutorial that is 4 years old that states that react native 0.55.4 is last compatible with react native web and anything later is not compatible yet. He showed the documentation page in the video as his source.

Personally, if you're trying to find a stack that can be applied everywhere with Next.js as your chosen framework, best bet would be React Native Web or similar. Which would let you share the maximum amount of frontend code between Web, iOS, and Android. Then you could reach for electron (barf) or something to bundle it for desktop if that was a requirement.

Some of the top cross-platform frameworks do have support for web targets. React-Native-Web and Flutter on the Web are both ways to target the web with your cross-platform app.

https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web/discussions/2201 it can be done.

If you want a single codebase for web and mobile I would look into react-native and react-native-web. You could probably code the web app with react-native-web, make it responsive and build it through react-native for mobile. Designing an app for mobile and for web can lead to significant difference though since the experience is quite different. Some things might make sense for a mobile and not for a desktop or the opposite. So I wouldn't discard completely the idea of having separate codebases. Highly depends on the app though, totally valid for many use cases.

Another fun thing you could do is build it for mobile + web using React-Native through Expo or manually with https://necolas.github.io/react-native-web/

If you're using Expo (which I assume most are on RN) they have web support. This is via React Native Web, which is a separate project if you wanted to use that directly too.

Personally though, I've found the DX of Flutter far above RN. I always had random packages break on RN that I had to fix every time, while with Flutter most of what you need is already included in the framework, including a component UI library for Android and iOS.

[0] https://docs.expo.dev/workflow/web/

[1] https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web

So the RN-R part is done by https://necolas.github.io/react-native-web/ and it's really good! However, there are some code that is kind of outside of the scope of React. Ie. Navigation, that's more in the realm of Next.

I don't have personal experience with this, but React Native Web claims to solve this issue: https://necolas.github.io/react-native-web/, not sure if anyone has had experience with this. Of course, you will have issues with dependency hell/package maintenance.

Another great option seems to be Flutter web. I was really impressed by the "batteries included" approach to Flutter, and Dart has a pretty comprehensive standard library. This is in contrast to React's "just find a random package on npm and pray it doesn't bite you in the future."

Obviously rewrites are expensive, but I personally think both approaches are worth considering versus abandoning native components completely. WebView isn't without problems (and also, you don't need React Native to use WebView).

[3]: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/tree/master/packages/flut...

Thanks - that link does not appear to be open access, anyways I don't think I've seen it. I'm familiar with Flutter at a high-level (Kevin Moore gave a great talk on it at Wasm I/O), and I think other than requiring users to work in Dart, it is probably one of the most powerful ways to do cross-platform UI today.

Worth noting that their original GPU backend was Skia, and now they are retooling around Flutter GPU (Impeller)[0], which is kind of designed similarly as an abstract rendering interface over platform-specific GPU APIs.

[0]https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter-GPU

If you are considering Electron/React then I would suggest adding Flutter to your list of technologies to consider. It uses Dart (a language similar to C#) and has a lot going for it… relatively quick to get up to speed with, fantastic developer experience (e.g., hot reload, great IDE support, good development tools) and very strong cross-platform support: it generates native iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows and Linux executables. Check it out: https://flutter.dev/

You can find the React Native documentation here and Flutter Documentation here.

[1]https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/55092#issuecomment...

> There is actually a great issue thread on the Flutter GitHub that explains exactly why other solutions do not work correctly when compared to hooks [0]

Interesting. I assume you are referring to this comment in particular -> https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/51752#issuecomment... ?