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:D That's what I like to hear!

For sure! There was definitely demand to know more about Couchbase Mobile at my class, so I know it's relevant for people using RN.

Ah! Nice catch. Will fix.

I'd be interested in hearing from people who have learned through this site, but my aim is:

One should be able to learn React Native directly through this tutorial, without starting with React for web. The main prerequisite is ES5 JavaScript. The tutorial makes analogies to HTML/CSS/React and other web technologies, but these aren't crucial to understanding the material.

I honestly haven't tried Couchbase mobile or CloudantSync. I got a few questions about Couchbase when I was teaching my last class on RN, and I've been meaning to try it. It sounds powerful and popular.

I have seen it done, so it's definitely possible, but haven't tried myself. My guess would be you probably need to know the native side on iOS/Android decently well for this, but I'm just speculating here.

Fixed :)

Fixed! Man, deploying while on HN is scary.

Hah. You are right :P I will fix.

Ah, thanks. I will change. I was going off my own memory from talking to a few Realm guys months ago, but clearly I should've just rtfm :)

Totally agree with you on that. When I have a little more time I'm gonna add that.

The compiled output starts out awesome with the first few sections, and then just gets tedious and weird.

Thanks Brent! Means a lot coming from a core contributor / mr. exponent :)

From the beginning, we always wanted it to be free for developers. Mainly because we, as developers, want our tools to be free and open source. And an IDE is such a difficult problem that it really needs the community to make it successful.

We plan on having a commercial license for companies that want to make closed-source modifications. We like the idea of charging companies much more than charging individual developers :)

This is actually a pretty interesting perspective. I hadn't really thought about how I basically use my Mac like a shiny silver Linux box. But it is so very nice and shiny... well anyway...

Deco is an Electron app, so it should build for Linux without too much trouble. None of us are Linux experts, so we'd be very happy to take any pull requests for Linux support if you have the expertise. As an indicator of demand, we have 2x the beta signups for Windows as Linux though, so we're currently prioritizing Windows support.

Linux support would be awesome too. Based on our beta, we got twice as many signups for Windows as Linux, so we're probably gonna prioritize Windows support unless we get a lot of sudden Linux interest.

It's an Electron app, so it should build for Windows without too much trouble. If you're interested, give it a shot and let us know how it goes :) None of us are Windows experts, so happy to take any pull requests for Windows support. (Or even Linux)