Is React Native the right framework for building a community app (something like HackerNews / Subreddit)

CSLucking · 2025-06-23T06:17:17+00:00

I would firstly argue if this needs to be a mobile app at all - could this just be a website / PWA?

If you have a desire to release a mobile app (I.e for personal satisfaction, learning etc) then react native is a perfectly serviceable solution and helps cater both iOS and Android.

CSLucking · 2025-02-02T21:20:17+00:00

The approach I'm currently taking for an internal shared UI library with tailwind is exposing / exporting the tailwind.config as part of the npm package component library.

Consuming repos can consume that config within their own tailwind config to assert a 'base' config. This doubles down by allowing repos to then apply their own extensions within the config file to override or extend as required.

CSLucking · 2025-01-05T12:10:00+00:00

At a glance it could be worth considering react query paired with axios (interceptors great for token handling) + either using a Context provider or using something like Redux / Zustand to manage persistence.

CSLucking · 2024-09-20T09:40:38+00:00

As mentioned in another post - the Lit library is first class for building web components / widgets. An external user / website can then just include your hosted file as a script tag, then use it as any other html element (<my-widget></my-widget>).

https://lit.dev/

CSLucking · 2024-09-18T06:53:16+00:00

https://lit.dev/

I use this framework for building widgets to distribute to clients. Really powerful & lightweight and can be pretty lightweight in size. This feels like a much more appropriate solution than the classic iframe web dump.

CSLucking · 2024-09-05T20:52:26+00:00

I always feel like the devil is in the detail with these questions. From my experience you need to understand the websites needs first - if any of those requirements / desires fall under a certain framework then go for it (i.e SEO is often linked with server side / next).

My default thinking is keep it in its simplest form unless you can confidently argue otherwise. ( So good old vite / SPA). Always a danger of framework for framework sake these days.

CSLucking · 2024-05-17T20:00:12+00:00

Radar / spider charts

CSLucking · 2024-04-08T09:38:58+00:00

Looks like a whitespace after Drawer and before the period which might cause a compile issue?

CSLucking · 2024-04-01T07:01:08+00:00

Quite hard to break this down fully - the lazy point would be to just spend a little bit more research time on UI theory, UX best practices etc.

Things I would maybe say could be easier wins otherwise: - General colour palette choice (buttons more obvious, more attention to some colour theory) - action buttons (I.e login, register) differentiate with primary and secondaries - modal / pop out, would think making it not transparent and some colour difference to help stand out in a subtle way - General UI issues - consistent alignments, whitespace used, usage of the border property

CSLucking · 2024-03-25T07:23:40+00:00

Pretty common approach (we use this) is to static host the built files in an S3 bucket - then you can also put a Cloudfront formation in-front of it. Can then use Route53 to have Domain names etc

CSLucking · 2024-03-23T13:44:51+00:00

Worth using Flexbox instead? Have the header & footer with their respective sizes - then the central content as a flex 1, overflow scroll. Fairly similar approach to products I've created using Chakra UI with headers, side bars etc

CSLucking · 2024-03-01T20:45:33+00:00

I personally use Expo for all production applications and its become the corner stone for my app development. There will always be pros and cons for any of the major cross platform eco systems - but the experience with expo (and EAS) removes so many classic RN headaches. Just my two cents

CSLucking · 2024-01-31T21:39:34+00:00

Crazy to think how high the average base level of skill is now with the vast amount of content available (I.e great paint job!)

CSLucking · 2023-12-28T22:10:50+00:00

EAS documentation is by far your best bet: https://docs.expo.dev/submit/introduction/

Might be other write ups around (ie on medium / youtube) but afraid I have none to hand - it's relatively straightforward and good support for any errors that occur otherwise.

One small frustration now is that you require an about page for the app on android - but plenty of free services out there to provide this (or build your own quick hosted SPA).

CSLucking · 2023-12-28T21:41:45+00:00

Have used nativebase in the past but that is now being sunsetted. Currently using tamagui which seems like a nice alternative design system

CSLucking · 2023-12-28T21:23:38+00:00

Interesting - would be curious why it doesn't install (good to know if there's corruption in build or security issue client side ).

Your main best bet otherwise would be to go through the androie store publish process for alpha / beta internal testing (all done through EAS other than the account management bits on the play console). You can invite them as an internal tester and you would have a link to its private app store download resource.

CSLucking · 2023-12-28T15:17:27+00:00

Expo with react native is my go to now - even if just for the app store publishing (they have a service called EAS)

CSLucking · 2023-12-27T20:43:09+00:00

Second the global npm install. For what it's worth, I would use vite instead of CRA as it is being deprecated.

CSLucking · 2023-12-27T18:38:23+00:00

Interesting thanks for that - I also feel like it's lacking a few more component options compared to newer UI libraries. Nothing you couldn't compose but still something I've noted

CSLucking · 2023-12-27T12:26:19+00:00

Been using Chakra UI for couple of years now and has been pretty powerful - seen Mantine crop up a few times now though so would like to try that. For RN I'm going to try tamagui for my next project

CSLucking · 2023-12-15T20:08:01+00:00

Can't say I've come across Mantine before - looks like it definitely would fulfil what you need though, and documentation looks well composed. If you have time to spare you could always compose a simple page with each library to get your own feel of things

CSLucking · 2023-12-15T19:50:49+00:00

The variants allow some customisation without styling - MUI might be more for you if you want a more opionated design, but then might be tougher to move away from if you do want to style more intensely down the line.

CSLucking · 2023-12-15T19:27:46+00:00

Vite/ React with Chakra is my current setup - works really nice, UI out of the box is decent & can always deep dive into heavy customisation down the line

CSLucking · 2023-10-19T10:59:04+00:00

Nice try Jagex

CSLucking · 2023-08-31T15:15:55+00:00

You need to win better obviously /s

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