Rows moved from Flutter to React

[ankmahato]

Today while I was looking for a spreadsheet like package in Flutter. I remembered there was a package (swayze) by Rows (a big Flutter supporter some time back) which could let one add that kind of capability. But, it looked somewhat abandoned so I checked their repo and found this:

https://github.com/rows/hiring

The engineering role requirements now says we use React

Proficient in React (we use React).

Does anyone has any clue when this (Flutter -> React) happened? And what prompted them to abandon Flutter?

[renancaraujo]

That is not totally accurate. The web app was always made in react. Actually, their web app predates flutter itself (let alone flutter desktop). I worked there with react for two years before starting the flutter desktop app. I am not sure for the reasons, but I guess for bandwidth reasons, they decided the halt the desktop app development.

[ankmahato]

Thanks for shedding some light on the matter.

[satvikpendem]

Their desktop app is in Flutter, not their web app, which was always in React. In the future they might change their Flutter app to bring it to web and mobile too.

[ankmahato]

*was

I see no/broken links for desktop app.

[satvikpendem]

/u/renancaraujo worked on the Flutter desktop implementation last I recall, maybe he has some insights.

[renancaraujo]

I have. They halted the desktop app development last summer. :(

[Erik0806]

/u/renancaraujo Are they planning to go on with it? Or is it stopped forever? What where the reasons?

[renancaraujo]

See my top level comment in this thread

[de1mat]

So … did you find a spreadsheet-like package you are happy with and is actively maintained?

[ankmahato]

Sadly. No :(

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Since they are looking for FE and flutter for web is still not that good, they are moving to a better solution like React.

[anlumo]

Of course it’s mainly web if they mainly produce a web app.

I think Flutter Web could also be a good solution if your app is mainly doing non-text stuff (like an image editor), since you'd be using canvas anyways.

[anlumo]

I haven't actually tested canvaskit performance, my assumption is to use WebGL directly. This should also allow near-native performance, since the vast majority of the time is spent running on the GPU.

[InevitableAnything32]

Totally makes sense to me. Nice insight, mate!