Adventures with React and JUCE: Building UI with Typescript in a C++ Application - Jim Hague - ACCU

ACCU Membership: https://tinyurl.com/ydnfkcyn https://accu.org https://www.accuconference.org/ Adventures with React and JUCE: Building UI with Typescript in a C++ Application - Jim Hague - ACCU 2023 Slides: https://accu.org/conf-previous/accu2023/ Ever thought of doing a C++ application user interface in React (even using Typescript into the bargain)? I've been part of a team working on a large C++ audio application doing exactly that. This session is a report on how it's been going, what has been good and what has been... less good. You have a large C++ codebase that uses JUCE, a multi-platform C++ framework widely used in the audio world. JUCE includes C++ GUI classes, so you can write your GUI directly with JUCE. But that means a compile and link every time you need to adjust anything, which can be tedious with a large code base, and besides, JUCE's GUI classes are pretty traditional. What if you could write your GUI in a more declarative fashion with React? And enjoy seeing changes in UI code show up immediately without a compile-link? This the story of exactly this journey, using the open source react-juce library. We'll learn a bit about JUCE, take a dive into how react-juce works (and so see how potentially you might produce a React backend targeting a different C++ GUI toolbox), look at how such a GUI might perform, and reflect on the lessons from the project. --- Jim Hague Jim learnt C from first edition K&R, bought the first edition of The C++ Programming Language when it first appeared, and hasn’t stopped using either since. This has taken him over time through all sorts of environments, from JVM internals to air traffic control. --- YouTube Videos Filmed, Edited & Optimised by Digital Medium: https://events.digital-medium.co.uk #accuconf #programming #juce