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React Native Web Component Libraries Compared: Magnus UI Vs Dripsy

Considering React Native Web (RNW), choose between Magnus UI & Dripsy: Magnus for SSR & utility-first design, Dripsy for responsivity with JS dimensions API.

Update 2024-11-24: Just use tamagui.dev for UI (or onestack.dev for a crossplatform framework).

First, a primer on React Native Web (RNW), for those unfamiliar. RNW is taking the high-level API of React Native, onto the Web. "Why not just use React?", you say. RNW is all about using specifically tailored native cross-platform components (that primarily render onto a native Screen view) and also rendering them on the web (to the DOM). Which is possible because RN/RNW uses higher-level abstractions (<View> and <Text> instead of <div> and <span>, etc.). (RNW should have been called "React Platfo...