▲Digs: Offline-first iOS app to browse your Discogs vinyl collection(lustin.fr)
26 points by rlustin 11 hours ago | 2 comments
▲hu3 2 hours ago
Blog title lacks iOS: "Building Digs, an offline Discogs companion"

And it's a RN app:

> It’s a React Native app built with Expo and TypeScript. Data lives in SQLite.

▲rlustin 11 minutes ago
Fair enough on the iOS mention. The tech stack (React Native, Expo, TypeScript, SQLite) is detailed in the blog post, I wasn't trying to hide it.

As others pointed out in the thread, RN renders actual native views, not a webview. For this use case: browsing a local SQLite database offline, it works really well.

▲ZeWaka 1 hour ago
What's wrong with React Native? I don't quite get your point there.
▲Insanity 1 hour ago
Speculating - but an iOS app that's build on React Native is not really a 'native iOS app'. Which might have some performance implications etc.

Just speculating, I've not done mobile development since before RN was even a thing.

▲rlustin 6 minutes ago
Funny enough this was my first mobile app ever, I figured it out doing it. Expo helped a lot. The Apple review process on the other hand… that was a whole learning experience on its own.
▲skydhash 1 hour ago
RN does use a lot of native code. It’s not based on a webview like Electron is. Most of the builtin components are native views and there’s no CSS. The JS engine is also simpler. It’s more akin to the lua runtime in Neovim.
▲Insanity 31 minutes ago
Ah, I did not know that. I thought it was more Electron-like.
▲monster_truck 54 minutes ago
Quite a lot. Enough that it isn't realistic to ask this in good faith
▲imagetic 2 hours ago
That’s fun!
▲rlustin 5 minutes ago
Thanks!