Native Web Apps: React and WebAssembly to Rewrite Native Apps

Can React and web technologies compete with native toolkits when it comes to making super complex, rich desktop apps? Can we go further and create better-than-native applications? 🤔 Sounds like a good challenge!

This talk introduces how React, JavaScript and WebAssembly can be used to write new ambitious apps, or port existing ones - with real world examples! I’ll show how to leverage the React ecosystem to create performant applications: architecture, patterns, typing, useful open-source modules and tooling… and how to go one step further and provide a better user experience as well as a better developer experience.

These apps are not web apps, they are not native apps, they are hybrid ‘Native Web Apps’ and can provide the best of both worlds.

About the speaker:

Florian is a software engineer working at Facebook. He was an early adopter of React Native and open-sourced a few modules for it. He is the author of GDevelop, an open-source game making software based on React, WebAssembly and JavaScript. He also made Lil BUB’s Hello Earth, an 8-bit game starring the internet sensation cat, which available on desktop and mobile and powered by GDevelop and JavaScript.