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Port photo-lab from UWP to RNW
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Description
Proposal: Port photo-lab from UWP to RNW
Summary
https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-appsample-photo-lab

Photo-lab is a mini-app for viewing and editing image files. The UWP version demonstrates XAML layout, data binding, and UI customization features.
Updating this to RNW would provide a sample that helps provide a comparison between various techs.
Motivation
Porting this sample to React Native has several benefits:
- Gives execs some hard data to compare technologies
- This is a complete app that could potentially get shipped to the store as a standalone
- More samples = win
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the linked Windows-appsample-photo-lab UWP project and the existing samples in this repository. Identify the RNW approach for reproducing its image viewing, editing, XAML layout, data binding, and UI customization demonstrations. Done means a comparable photo-lab sample is implemented for RNW as a complete app.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react-native
- Domain
- desktop, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100