solito VS react-native-windows

I've been building for the past 3-4 months on the Solito starter repo that uses React Native to build the shared components that are used by both Next.JS for web and Expo for mobile. This theoretically should be harder/longer to build than one of these alone, but easier/shorter than building both separate projects. Has anyone built this kind of monorepo to completion/production before and can share this experience? Am I on the right path and this is a hump during the package configuration phase or would I be better off just using React and constantly maintaining two codebases that have to match feature parity?

I think this is what you are looking for: https://solito.dev/ 😊

We're encountering an issues on the web side while trying to run React Native Skia in NextJS as part of a Solito monorepo. Mobile (Expo) seems to work fine, but the "warning" Skia throws of not finding reanimated is causing Next.js builds to error out with the following error:

I’ve only just started using it but https://solito.dev/ seems to do exactly that.

I found Solito and see that it may perhaps support react-native-macos - does anyone have experience here?

It has become very practical / doable in the recent year or so. In my experience, if you have lot of frontend web experience, the easiest way to ship a RN app is by using Solito [0]. Also check out Nativewind [1] which allows you to style native apps the same way like you would on web. I was able to ship the first version of our app in about 1.5 weeks with this stack. Also checkout Tamagui [2].

[0] - https://solito.dev

Solito 4 - https://github.com/nandorojo/solito/releases/tag/v4.0.0

Another option is the Solito stack which has a single code base for react native and next js. https://solito.dev/

The [Expo docs for NextJS](https://docs.expo.dev/guides/using-nextjs/) recommends @expo/next-adapter, while I have a sense of what [Solito](https://github.com/nandorojo/solito) does as [explained by the author](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1gSWXA3qfw). I'm not fully clear what the difference these two libraries are and whether they can or should be used together.

Microsoft is using React Native for Windows [0] for their Office applications [1]. As a fan of RN this would be the first avenue I’d explore if I had to develop something for Windows.

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

There's also MAUI (.NET) and React Native desktop.

Sometimes yeah they can become a real pain in the a$$. With RN you can make good looking and dynamic layouts with minimum effort. On the other hand when trying to implement logic my main and continuous issues I am facing is with the async parts . Apart from I am all in for RN . I am going to give it a try for a windows app with https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows .And if it works fine (which means you get your self away from C#) it will be a really powerful tool for me .

You can read more about it here: https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

at Microsoft, it's used a lot for brownfield scenarios, similar to react-native-windows: https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows

you sound more like a zealot than someone trying to make a point. you can deploy to desktop with react native and have been able to for years now, courtesy of Microsoft: https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/