[HN Gopher] Digs: iOS app that syncs your Discogs collection and...
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       Digs: iOS app that syncs your Discogs collection and lets you
       browse it offline
        
       Author : rlustin
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2026-03-23 09:02 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | hu3 wrote:
       | Blog title lacks iOS: "Building Digs, an offline Discogs
       | companion"
       | 
       | And it's a RN app:
       | 
       | > It's a React Native app built with Expo and TypeScript. Data
       | lives in SQLite.
        
         | ZeWaka wrote:
         | What's wrong with React Native? I don't quite get your point
         | there.
        
           | Insanity wrote:
           | Speculating - but an iOS app that's build on React Native is
           | not really a 'native iOS app'. Which might have some
           | performance implications etc.
           | 
           | Just speculating, I've not done mobile development since
           | before RN was even a thing.
        
             | skydhash wrote:
             | RN does use a lot of native code. It's not based on a
             | webview like Electron is. Most of the builtin components
             | are native views and there's no CSS. The JS engine is also
             | simpler. It's more akin to the lua runtime in Neovim.
        
               | Insanity wrote:
               | Ah, I did not know that. I thought it was more Electron-
               | like.
        
             | rlustin wrote:
             | Funny enough this was my first mobile app ever, I figured
             | it out doing it. Expo helped a lot. The Apple review
             | process on the other hand... that was a whole learning
             | experience on its own.
        
               | coffeecantcode wrote:
               | God I feel you here, that first review is always brutal.
        
           | monster_truck wrote:
           | Quite a lot. Enough that it isn't realistic to ask this in
           | good faith
        
         | rlustin wrote:
         | Fair enough on the iOS mention. The tech stack (React Native,
         | Expo, TypeScript, SQLite) is detailed in the blog post, I
         | wasn't trying to hide it.
         | 
         | As others pointed out in the thread, RN renders actual native
         | views, not a webview. For this use case: browsing a local
         | SQLite database offline, it works really well.
        
       | imagetic wrote:
       | That's fun!
        
         | rlustin wrote:
         | Thanks!
        
       | cauterize wrote:
       | Love this given my favorite record store is in a basement with
       | bad cell service!
        
         | rlustin wrote:
         | I love it!
        
       | dnlzro wrote:
       | How'd you design the icon/logo for it?
        
         | rlustin wrote:
         | Not a designer at all, I used recraft.ai and iterated until I
         | got something I liked.
        
       | ebuyan wrote:
       | What do you recommend beyond React Native?
        
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