Overhaul the UI to use webviews
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- react, react-native, typescript
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are identified. Start by locating the current React Native UI and the manager UI responsible for rendering the explorer and addons, then assess the web UI dependencies and polyfill constraints described here. Done would require an agreed and implemented webview-based rendering approach with its scope and validation defined.
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Description
The RN UI is currently build all in RN. This makes it very time-consuming.
We're for the most part unable to re-use the web-UI because it depends on loads of dependencies that are not suitable for RN. There's also the polyfill issue that's not easy to resolve.
If we want to make this easier we should consider this:
Using web-views with the manager's UI in it for rendering the explorer & addons.

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- TypeScript
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