When you used a built-in interactive HTML UI component (e.g. textarea, select, checkbox) in the browser was it because? A) Accessibility?
B) A better polished/integrated user experience than any JS library provides. C) Meh I just needed to throw something together.
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This is the biggest differentiator between something like the Web and React Native. The focused investment in polished native UI components by far that of web browser and JS libraries combined. The web has only optimized scrolling finite content (unless you use scrollbars).
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Replying to @sebmarkbage
I'm not buying this argument. Can you unpack it more, especially as it relates to people who are developing content for the web?
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The quality of primitives on the web is poor. E.g. contextual menus, stack navigation, buttons, video controls, infinite scrolling lists with context, date pickers etc. This was known before the mobile era. Many reimplementations of <select /> and jQuery UI solved a real problem.
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Every reimplementation of <select> on the web since the beginning of time that I have come into contact with has made my experience worse. It got even worse on mobile. Flex was not an improvement.
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On the bright side we have something to disagree about! I was getting tired of agreeing all the time 

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