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Microsoft is using React Native for Windows [0] for their Office applications [1]. As a fan of RN this would be the first avenue I’d explore if I had to develop something for Windows.

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/ [1] https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/resources-s...

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nik736|2 years ago

This is a bit misleading. Only minor parts of Office are built with React Native, not the whole thing.

xerox13ster|2 years ago

Teams is, and it's IMO the worst Office app available. I don't have time to get into all the reasons why right now because I need to sleep and it always leads to a 30 minute irl rant or a multiparagraph screed about the complete breakdown of their corporate work culture and terrible UI tooling that they can't fix a context menu rendering bug in their own damn "native" first-party corporate communications app when _They're The Company Writing The UI/GFX API THAT REACT NATIVE USES!!!!_ hooooosaaaaa I don't work there anymore, I don't work there anymore. Good night HN.

grumblingdev|2 years ago

Facebook Messenger uses React Native.

WhatsApp Desktop uses WinUI.

WhatsApp is superior.

I don't get React Native. It's such a huge, complicated abstraction with no ability to performance tweak. I don't understand how a company as big as Facebook doesn't have enough resources to build native apps for each platform. These UIs are the simplest app you could build as well.

shakkhar|2 years ago

> Facebook Messenger uses React Native.

This is misleading at best, if not outright wrong.