maxphillipsdev / scuffedact-native

A React-Native project without React-Native

ScuffedAct Native 🤮

It's like React-Native but really, really scuffed!

Why? / Disclaimer

This is a project I threw together to learn more about the internals of React-Native, please don't expect anything remotely polished (hence the name). It's pretty much just a barebones proof-of-concept of how to run React on a native OS.

If you are curious feel free to browse the (cursed) source code. I might write a blog post on it at some point, in which case I'll link that here.

To Do

• Flexbox with Yoga
• Hot reload with websockets
• Android mayyyybeee, but probably not

Usage

pnpm install

pnpm run start

This will start the esbuild ScuffedMetro™ dev server.

The JavaScript bundle is served to localhost:8000/index.bundle and made available inside of dist/. When you build and run the Xcode ios project, it should read the bundle from here.

If it can't, uhh it will probably crash? idk tbh

Features

• Runs on (only) ios!
• Lukewarm-reloading! (The JS will build on changes, but you gotta rebuild the native app)
• Supports <Text />!

Running Tests

To run tests, run the following command

pnpm run test

Optimizations

I left out android, native modules, native components, turbo modules, fabric components, JNI, Yoga, hermes, and about 99% of the expected components.

Acknowledgements

uhhhh i'd like to thank the academy, my mum, uhhh my cat...

Used By

No one I hope lol