React.js + React Native: Abstracting platform differences away

[SanderSpies]

Are there any plans on abstracting platform differences away?

For React.js I use React.findDOMNode, but also offsetLeft, offsetWidth, etc. Obviously these won't work inside React Native - so I was wondering if this is just how things are, or if there is some plan for abstracting this away?

[vjeux]

For measurement, we have an asynchronous API (we can't have anything synchronous in React native), that we designed to be polyfill-able in the browser. Ideally we want React Native to be a (good) subset of the browser. But in this case, since the browser doesn't have an API we came up with our own.

[vjeux]

For React.findDOMNode(), we have this.refs.blabla.getNodeHandle() that you can use to communicate with native.

We want to converge the two at some point.