What is everyone's cross platform frontend framework of choice (lemm.ee)

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I have been experimenting with react native as I heard it's one of the good ones, and so far it is not a particularly enjoyable experience. Lots of irritating things like no global styling, lots of ugly, hard to read properties on tags, etc

In a perfect world where you get to choose, which frontend frameworks would you use and why?

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[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 14 points 10 months ago

Qt!!!!

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Qt all the way.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Qt and not gtk?

[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Gtk and not DZ?

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

What's DZ? Google search didn't come up with much

[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

DZ NUTS

HAHAHAHHAA

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I've been building sites for decades and have never used a frontend framework, just html, css, JavaScript and sometimes jQuery.

But I'm currently working on learning React because apparently it's so popular, most full stack jobs are now requiring it.

In a perfect world I would only build the front end with Html and CSS. I like the simplicity and also the security it provides.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

I like you. Too many websites are about five times too bloated for what they actually deliver.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's what I usually do, tbh frontend frameworks seem kinda pointless to me. You'd think they'd be an improvement on regular js but no

The issue is making it a mobile app, as that's the primary platform for this project (though might be better to just make it a PWA instead of using react native

[-] nothendev@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

goober or in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, which, fun fact, goober was inspired by

[-] cybirdman@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I really recommend nativewind to solve pretty much every gripe I have with styling react native, if you still want to give it a chance. Expo for instant cross platform updates by just publishing updated JavaScript (no more publishing updatdes in app store and play store!) Also, yup and Formik for form validation and react query for API calls. With these minimal libraries react native becomes a beast.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I'm currently using expo it just doesn't feel like a very well featured language and doesn't seem maintainable

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

If I need to do data binding, some simple Vue.js. Otherwise, vanilla js or jQuery.

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

If you didn't like react native (it has its quirks), you could try flutter, it's a lot more sane although I personally find the source code to be a lot harder to read after it's a bit bigger.

[-] vtguy@jlai.lu 0 points 10 months ago

Godot

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