Rich-Harris

Note: I'm not involved in Prepack in any way — please correct me if I say anything incorrect below!

A few people have asked me if Prepack and Svelte are similar projects with similar goals. The answer is 'no, they're not', but let's take a moment to explore why.

What is Prepack?

Prepack describes itself as a 'partial evaluator for JavaScript'. What that means is that it will run your code in a specialised interpreter that, rather than having some effect on the world (like printing a message to the console), will track the effects that would have happened and express them more directly.

So for example if you give it this code...

kosiara

# author:
# @Bartosz Kosarzycki
#

sudo apt-get install npm
sudo npm install -g react-native-cli
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
cd /home/user/your/project/path
react-native init AwesomeProject
cd AwesomeProject