Marzipants

Here's a proof-of-concept that React Native can work* (*lol) under Marzipan.

But, like, it's proof that we don't need Electron, right? 💪

Running Marzipan

Check out biscuitehh/MarzipanPlatter for a nice guide on getting Marzipan running.

It's surprising how well it's working. Besides the obvious mobile-specific things, it's running abouuuut as well as tvOS builds of React Native.

I wouldn't recommend using it. Ever. C'mon now.

I have some screenshots* of the RNTester sample application from React Native.

(*photos, lols. My UI server dies hard the second my Touchbar becomes active, which my screenshot shortcut does. Ehhh)

I've committed everything. EVERYTHING. node_modules, especially, because that's where the bulk of the changes were.

Follow all the MarzipanPlatter instructions first
Install node if you don't have it yet (brew install node)
Open the Xcode project, run the MarzipantsMacSwift target, and you too have an unstable UI server and a poorly rendered app!
If the app fails to compile, try building the ReactMac scheme first, and only then MarzipantsMacSwift
Instead of running from Xcode directly, you can build the app from Xcode, and then:
Run react-native server: npm install -g react-native; react-native start
Find in Xcode the built app (in Products group, find MarzipantsMacSwift.app -> Open in Finder), copy path to it
Run the built app via CLI: CFMZEnabled=1 open path-to-the-MarzipantsMacSwift.app
If you open some screen you shouldn't have and you keep getting the red screen at launch, delete ~/Library/Containers/com.notjosh.MarzipantsMacSwift