Hello All, Can someone share there thoughts or ex...

# multiplatform

[Mohit Sharma]

Hello All,

Can someone share there thoughts or experience making a React Native app with KMP ?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

It is convenient if you like Kotlin and need a web app. I did my https://terrakok.github.io/Compose-Multiplatform-Wizard/ with React and Kotlin

[Mohit Sharma]

I want to experiment with react native for building screens + flow and KMP for logic & api integration

[Mohit Sharma]

Don’t plan to use compose UI for now.

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

I don't use the compose

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

have you checked the source code?

[krzysztof]

sounds like a double work for me, in a sense that:
• you write a shared kmp module, with logic and api integration
• You have to write native modules per platform, in order to connect the shared kmp logic
So in the end, you end up with writing native logic per platform

[krzysztof]

I think it does make sense, if you plan to re-use these kmp modules in different rn apps

[Mohit Sharma]

@krzysztof : For point 2, i was thinking react native will solve for this..( based on my high knowledge of React native frameworks)

[Mohit Sharma]

So my efforts would be saved.

[Mohit Sharma]

@Konstantin Tskhovrebov : Nope will do shortly.

[krzysztof]

For point 2, i was thinking react native will solve for this..

Well, you still have to consume the kmp in RN, which is done via native modules

[krzysztof]

unless there is an option to write RN's Native Module in KMP

[Mohit Sharma]

Do you think i making this over complicated?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

I use KMP: JS and React as frontend + JVM for unit tests

[krzysztof]

@Mohit Sharma I think you need to consider tradeoffs as it highly depends on the use case. Creating a SDK for native apps and expanding this to React Native, sounds like a good trade off

[krzysztof]

business logic that is only consumed by RN seems bit over engineered and could be done in JS alone

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

JVM test ecosystem is the best. so, a testing is a perfect usecase IMO

[Pearce Keesling]

There is reakt-native-toolkit which does native modules in kmp but it is limited to old arch I believe. We use kmp but so far it is mostly just for our home screen widgets. When it comes time for deeper integration we're going to try and use nitro-modules to generate most of the glue code. Eventually I would like to see if I can add kmp support directly to nitrogen (the code generator), since it is all marshalled through C++ there shouldn't be any showstoppers