Thursday, 28 June, 2018 UTC
Summary
Interesting blog post by TJ Vantoll, who works on NativeScript:
In this article we’ll walk through Airbnb’s complaints in detail, and talk about how some of those same problems could’ve been handled in NativeScript. We’ll start with things that NativeScript does well (this is the NativeScript blog after all), and then move on to things NativeScript does, well, less well.
Takes a good look at things like the bridge, the use of TypeScript, the benefits of NativeScript’s single threaded model.
Would Airbnb Have Fared Better With NativeScript Instead of React Native? →
Be sure to also read “State of React Native 2018”. In that post, Facebook announced some changes it’s going to make regarding the bridge/threading:
To make React Native more lightweight and fit better into existing native apps, this rearchitecture has three major internal changes. First, we are changing the threading model. Instead of each UI update needing to perform work on three different threads, it will be possible to call synchronously into JavaScript on any thread for high-priority updates while still keeping low-priority work off the main thread to maintain responsiveness. Second, we are incorporating async rendering capabilities into React Native to allow multiple rendering priorities and to simplify asynchronous data handling. Finally, we are simplifying our bridge to make it faster and more lightweight; direct calls between native and JavaScript are more efficient and will make it easier to build debugging tools like cross-language stack traces.
Really looking forward to these upcoming changes