# react
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cool-psychiatrist-49311
11/18/2018, 5:36 AMI use coconut with RN, which is a great experience imo - o
orange-van-60470
11/18/2018, 5:37 AMthe stuff I used to do was touchscreens it was all custom but it did take a lot of work - o
orange-van-60470
11/18/2018, 5:37 AMthen before that an app that's quite popular - o
orange-van-60470
11/18/2018, 5:38 AMAIR coding all the interfaces from scratch is hard work I guess. - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:38 AMYou don't need to use JSX to use React. - o
orange-van-60470
11/18/2018, 5:38 AMBut it's less restrained - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/18/2018, 5:38 AMYeah, react you can useblah.createElement - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/18/2018, 5:38 AMnot sure if it's just reactnative that has the jsx limitation - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/18/2018, 5:39 AM(or if it's even a limitation) - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:40 AMYou can also use Hyperscript which is what mithril and Haxe MithrilMVC uses. - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:40 AM - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/18/2018, 5:40 AMI'm not a huge fan of XML but for html/ui development it just makes sense to me - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/18/2018, 5:41 AMBut I started programming by doing web development many years ago so I'm used to it - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:42 AM - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:42 AMYeah I think JSX is fine. - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:43 AMI think maybe some people hate it because of the arbitrary association with the HTML DOM, but it was never the markup that was the problem, it was DOM manipulation which was slow, which React solved with a virtual dom tree. - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:44 AMOtherwise it's just syntax, like who cares IMO. - o
orange-van-60470
11/18/2018, 5:44 AMI think perhaps I prefer the MovieClip or RenderTexture styles of creation. - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:44 AMI care about functionality. - o
orange-van-60470
11/18/2018, 5:45 AMXML markups can end up with everything looking like a form - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/18/2018, 5:45 AMI'm not really sure what you mean by that - o
orange-van-60470
11/18/2018, 5:47 AMDid you ever use flash? - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/18/2018, 5:47 AMYeah, just not much of actionscript - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:47 AMWhy not just use OpenFL or Pixi then? - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:47 AMI don't think the MovieClip approach makes sense for native widgets. - o
orange-van-60470
11/18/2018, 5:53 AMAre you both working on Native-React - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:55 AMThe reason it might "look like a form" is you shouldn't be constantly manipulating node placement in the DOM or display list tree during the render cycle. It makes it so it's not mutable till the next render cycle, which is why the DOM and Flash display list is slow. - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:56 AMWell I've used React a lot, not using React Native currently. - u
user
11/18/2018, 5:56 AMJust don't have any use for it atm. - a
ambitious-knife-25690
11/18/2018, 5:56 AMNo, but I've made App(s) 1 somewhat commercial and a ton for personal use. It's pretty great for native mobile development