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πŸ€”πŸŒ React Native for web developers

Evan Bacon on February 19, 2020

In the world of web development, everything is streamlined. The concept of React Native is really appealing to a React developer on paper, but aban...
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Michael Lustig - halfjew22@gmail.com

A) I just started using expo and I can't believe how cool it is. Thank you for whatever you do with it. I don't know if you're the founder or just biggest evangelist.

B) How did you do the thing in your post footer with all of your cool buttons?

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Evan Bacon

It’s an HTML table

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Andri

I've been preaching React Primitives (Text, View, etc) for so long that I'm a bit sceptical of reverting back to HTML lingo. I can see the value for web developers starting with RN though.

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Evan Bacon

Ditto

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Seanmclem • Edited

Just listened to you on react podcast, talking about how intuitive it was to use things like the text component to generate things like links in expo web. So

This might make it easier for a web dev like me to transition to RN. Thanks, I love to have options.

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Evan Bacon

HTML-elements is a flavor of React Native that caters towards web developers. As a native developer I personally find the View, Text, Image, etc. primitives to be more intuitive.

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Michael Lefkowitz • Edited

Cool stuff, Evan! Shared on React Native Now #60