Facebook Brings React Native To Native Mobile Development

the_insult_dog writes Despite a lack of dev tools, samples, tutorials, documentation or even a blog post or press release, Facebook's announcement that it's bringing the popular React.js JavaScript library to iOS and Android native mobile development stirred up comments like "groundbreaking" and "game changing." In a series of videos from the recent React.js Conference 2015, Facebook engineers said they're rejecting the "write-once, run-anywhere pipe dream" in favor of a "learn-once, write-anywhere" paradigm. All efforts to duplicate native performance and look-and-feel actually feel like "s__t", an engineer said in explaining the company's new approach to native development in a conference keynote video. Yet to be proven, with tools in the works, it's supposedly a huge success internally at Facebook and experts said the new approach could shake up the whole mobile dev industry.

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Judging by ..

[Anonymous Coward]

Judging by the Facebook App. This react is a piece of shit. Just use Objective C or Swift and stop wasting everyones time.

Re:I have a dream ...

[gstoddart]

On what basis do you conclude that "phone home" code will be included

Because Zuckerberg and Facebook are greedy douchebags who want the marketing/personal information?

Does the current React.js include such code?

Irrelevant, this is a binary, which means you don't really know everything it does.

As per TFA, Facebook did write it to benefit themselves, but that certainly doesn't mean it is useful only to them.

My inherent distrust of Facebook says it will be self-serving library -- because that's kind of what they do.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I need to up my meds. Maybe I should apply another layer of tinfoil.

But I trust Facebook as far as I can throw Zuckerberg off a roof ... and so far they've not allowed me to throw him off a roof, so I just assume I can't trust them at all.