react-native port?

[npreiser]

I would love to use this in a react native app, has anyone tried to convert this

[jaames]

Hey @npreiser !

As far as I know, nobody has ported iro.js to React Native yet.

With that said, the next major version of the library (currently in beta) is built with Preact, so all the controls are JSX components with a react-like API. It might not be too far-fetched to port that to React Native.

If somebody wanted to sponsor an official port, or try to port it themselves, that would be awesome. But at the moment I think it's too far outside the scope of what I'm willing to put into the official library myself.

[bad-jesus]

Hi James, I would be willing to sponsor this if you are interested.

[jaames]

Hi James, I would be willing to sponsor this if you are interested.

Thanks for the offer! To be honest I'm not sure how productive I could be here.

I have basically no experience with React Native, but last time I looked into this, I think I concluded that there aren't really any suitable options for drawing dynamic SVG/Canvas style graphics that don't rely on a hacky webview setup or something similar, which makes things fairly non-trivial. I did recently have this idea of drawing the UI in a WebGL fragment shader for VR/AR, if React Native provides access to underlying graphics APIs maybe that's an option?

But TL;DR, without a clear idea of how to handle UI rendering, I'd hate to take somebody's money and not deliver satisfying results, so I might have to decline unfortunately.