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I stumbled upon this the other day and was immediately impressed. There's still a way to go but look at the detail in the transitions - not just a straightforward slide but with the previous page parallaxing and the shadow effect - very similar to native.

I think react is a wonderful technology. I also think that there's a real gap for a lightweight mobile-only framework like this, and this work is a great start.

Thanks! we're putting a lot of detail into the animations to make it feel as native as possible. The touch events too - you'll notice that if you touch a link, and move too far away, it'll un-hilight; then if you move back it activates again, just like on iOS. Or in a scrolling panel, scrolling cancels the touch event.

We've had a great experience building with React, and browserify - it keeps everything organised and modular, and is pretty much perfect for mobile app architecture.

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