Unified information architecture

Let's take a moment to recap the ingredients of our application architecture so far:

  • React Web: Applications that run in web browsers
  • React Native: Applications that run natively on mobile platforms
  • Flux: Patterns for scalable data in React applications

Remember, React is just an abstraction that sits on top of a render target. The two main render targets are browsers and mobile native. This list will likely grow, so it's up to us to design our architecture in a way that doesn't exclude future possibilities. The challenge is that you're not porting a web application to a native mobile application; they're different applications, but they serve the same purpose.

Having said that, is there a way that we can still have ...

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