storybookjs/react-native

Overhaul the UI to use webviews

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#2 opened on Jan 27, 2020

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Description

The RN UI is currently build all in RN. This makes it very time-consuming. We're for the most part unable to re-use the web-UI because it depends on loads of dependencies that are not suitable for RN. There's also the polyfill issue that's not easy to resolve.

If we want to make this easier we should consider this:

Using web-views with the manager's UI in it for rendering the explorer & addons.

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Research direction
Study the current React Native UI architecture and the web UI codebase to identify reusable components. Then, prototype a webview integration that loads the web UI for the explorer and addons, handling communication between the webview and native modules.
Tech stack
typescriptreact native
Domain
mobile dev
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Refactor
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5
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Over 1 week
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Stale
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Clear
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GitReact NativeTypeScript
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25