Get early feedback on the direction of react-famous

[pilwon]

I started this project extending @trusktr 's React + Famo.us integration idea posted at https://github.com/Famous/famous-react/issues/10, simply because I didn't want to wait for it forever.

I'm still experimenting with it and trying to figure out what is the best way to design propTypes of each wrapper component. Ideally we want something that is idiomatic enough for both worlds. I'm currently learning about Meteor's famous-views and Angular's famous-angular since they solved some shared design problems. (done)

I'd like to personally invite @trusktr @zoomclub @stereokai @coodoo @marcus from the discussion and Mr. @talves to this thread to get some early feedback. Any comment/suggestion/feedback would be appreciated. I'm also curious if you think there is enough value in growing this project (hopefully together) or it is probably not worth the effort beyond this prototype stage. (Update 3/11/2015: also invited @adrianhunter @bradparks @brev @giantelk @gojohnnygo @hookercookerman @jbremmer @jiyinyiyong @khoerling @nickdima @nmn @timcash and one of my heroes @petehunt)

Please share your insight :)

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Updates

• 3/10/2015: Examples app built with react-famous is available: http://react-famous.github.io/
• 3/10/2015: Emailed Steve and Myles at Famo.us to request early access to mixed mode so this project grow. (still awaiting their response)
• 3/11/2015: Invited more hackers to this discussion.
• 3/11/2015: Published to NPM registry and created a seed project react-famous-seed

[zoomclub]

Thanks for moving famo.us in the right direction, this is just what the doctor ordered!

[trusktr]

@pilwon This is amazing. I think this is the right direction for anyone who wishes to use react with famo.us. Definitely get some demos running online when ready! I wish this was the official integration.

[pilwon]

This project has undergone lots of design iterations during the last few days, and I believe we now have fairly solid foundation to build some apps with it. This React + Famo.us integration seems like a real killer combination for rapid development of highly componentized/interactive apps.

Examples app built with react and react-famous: http://react-famous.github.io/

Check out the source code to learn how it was built. It works with React v0.13.

[talves]

@pilwon looks great. As long as it will be sustainable with the new version (MixedMode) it will be awesome! There will be plans for an end of life with the current version of Famo.us.

[zoomclub]

This is wonderful, looks and runs well, even Steve Newcomb would be proud :-)

Next, we need early access to MixedMode...

[pilwon]

@talves It is unfortunate they decided to end the current API to move onto something radically different. I thought they were just rewriting internal engine code and were planning to reuse most of API side of things. Depends on how "radical" this change might be, most of the effort put into this project so far could be thrown into garbage. 👊 We really do need early access to mixed mode...

Reference: Famous/famous#642 (comment)

[talves]

@pilwon I agree about early access 👊

[zoomclub]

Just ask Steve, he is always telling us to shoot him any questions. Being reasonable with an agenda to change our world for the better he should see the capable project here and give the order to expedite the formidable combination of Famo.us and React ASAP. Maybe there would be a hush period but work on react-famous could continue until some date that coincides with Steve's launch plan.

[pilwon]

@zoomclub Yeah let's do that. Do you happen to know what's the best way to reach him? (it's steve@)

[trusktr]

Great job @pilwon ! It's looking very nice!

[pilwon]

Inviting more people to this thread: @adrianhunter @bradparks @brev @giantelk @gojohnnygo @hookercookerman @jbremmer @jiyinyiyong @khoerling @nickdima @nmn @timcash @RedCloudDC and one of my heroes @petehunt

react-famous hasn't been published to NPM, but you can start playing with it by running and modifying the examples app. (update: now published)

Does the approach this project takes for React + Famo.us integration make sense to you? Is the design intuitive enough? Please share your thoughts so we can steer it to the right direction.

[tiye]

@pilwon Thanks.

Noticed that react-devtools is not working on the demos. Is that a bug?

[pilwon]

@jiyinyiyong Created issue #8 for this question.

[nmn]

I've been looking through the code and examples. Great work.
Though with the whole famous API changing, and the existence of React-Canvas and React-Native, I believe there is a completely different route that this combination should take.

I have no idea what the new famous API will look like. But I do know that the current famo.us API looks terrible in comparison to React-Native (with FlexBox API)

So I think any React+Famo.us combination should definitely adopt the React-CSS flex-box based layout.
Also, reading the reply from Myles on the issue mentioned above, I think famo.us is on the right path as well.