# react
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broad-honey-24785
10/19/2018, 6:48 AM🏏 - h
handsome-television-62908
10/19/2018, 8:05 AM🦗🦗 - a
ambitious-knife-25690
10/19/2018, 4:51 PMThe space crickets have spoken - a
average-truck-8256
10/19/2018, 7:04 PMJust watched that HaxeUp talk on Coconut, looks pretty interesting - a
ambitious-knife-25690
10/28/2018, 5:46 PMHaven't seen it - a
ambitious-knife-25690
10/28/2018, 5:46 PMCoconut is a web framework, right? - c
cool-psychiatrist-49311
10/29/2018, 1:21 AMIt's a ui framework, think react, but not web only - c
cool-psychiatrist-49311
10/29/2018, 5:56 AMThere is a poc for haxeui+coconut meaning that you can write react-like declarative code for haxeui which will target many platforms - h
hundreds-dentist-88554
11/02/2018, 2:47 PM@cool-psychiatrist-49311 im checking out coconut right now, it looks pretty cool! any idea when you guys will have the your first release/website up? - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/02/2018, 3:51 PMI swear coconut has been around for a long time - h
hundreds-dentist-88554
11/02/2018, 5:14 PMit seems like its only been around since 2017, from what i can tell - h
hundreds-dentist-88554
11/02/2018, 5:15 PMyou use react-native a lot, right @ambitious-knife-25690 ? - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/02/2018, 5:15 PMthe haxe version, yeah - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/02/2018, 5:15 PMPretty much any mobile app I'll be using it - h
hundreds-dentist-88554
11/02/2018, 5:22 PMis it easy to include stuff like material-ui? - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/02/2018, 5:36 PMYeah - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/02/2018, 5:36 PMCreating externs is a little fiddly to learn but fairly intuitive - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/02/2018, 5:37 PMI've made a fair amount of externs for it so I don't think you'll need to worry about things like material ui - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/02/2018, 5:37 PMI need to update my firebase externs on github though, I've added firestore since - c
cool-psychiatrist-49311
11/03/2018, 4:08 AMI think coconut has released to haxelib already - m
miniature-summer-93860
11/04/2018, 5:37 AMreact native vs openfl hmm 🤔 - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/04/2018, 5:37 AMFor developing apps? - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/04/2018, 5:37 AMReact-native is 100% win - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/04/2018, 5:38 AMAbsolutely no question whats so ever - c
cool-psychiatrist-49311
11/04/2018, 5:40 AMOne example: try implementing all the functions of a native text input in openfl and you will know what PITA means. (Highlight, copy paste, auto complete, etc) - c
cool-psychiatrist-49311
11/04/2018, 5:42 AMSimply put, it is very hard to match UX provided by native components - m
miniature-summer-93860
11/04/2018, 5:58 AMWell you can just use native extensions to add a native input text - m
miniature-summer-93860
11/04/2018, 5:58 AMthat's what my app does I don't think react native wins so hard when it comes to custom ui - m
miniature-summer-93860
11/04/2018, 5:59 AMI can definitely see the huge incentive if you just want to throw up something quick and use native components - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/04/2018, 5:59 AMI would argue react-native gives you more creative freedom with custom ui