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lelandrichardson / react-primitives

Primitive React Interfaces Across Targets
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Clarify differences between `react-primitives` and `reactxp` #88

Closed jferrettiboke closed 6 years ago

jferrettiboke commented 7 years ago

ReactXP is a library for cross-platform app development using React and React Native, such as Web, Android, iOS, Windows 10 and it seems that they recently added support for macOS.

My first impression was that both of them are pretty similar because they are libraries cross-platform for building apps. I read a little bit more about them and I think the main differences between them are that react-primitives is focused on building just the interface across targets while reactxp is focused on cross-platform app development with all the app logic included. And, of course, the targets/platforms between them are not the same at this point in time.

I would like that someone could clarify this more to have a better understanding and tell me if I am right or wrong. I would appreciate it because, maybe, the differences between them are bigger that I expected them.

Thanks for this amazing library!

bogdansoare commented 6 years ago

Good question. Also what is the difference between react-primitives and react-native-web ?

MoOx commented 6 years ago

-web is for the... web. -primitives is (in theory) for multiples platforms (like sketch) following react-native APIs.

mathieudutour commented 6 years ago

Yeah you are right, they are pretty similar, I'd say the goal is the same but the supported platforms and APIs are different. react-primitives was open sourced as a mean to bring the community to discuss those subjects and implement a solution while ReactXP arrived a bit later as a "ready-to-use" framework used by Microsoft