I'm working on react-qml[1] to pursuit that exact goal: bringing React model to desktop UI development. Thought you might be interested. We're running this in production for over a year now and quite happy with that. Team's productivity improved a lot, mostly because of better tooling for desktop development:

  - Write codes in ES6/7 or TypeScript (transpiling using babel).
  So the syntax is exactly like what you're writing on the web (not React-like syntax)
  - Bundling using webpack (with a sensible default, zero-configuration FTW)
  - Use any front-end library (redux, lodash, rxjs, redux-observable etc.)
  - Supports Hot Module Reloading (sub-second reloading)
  - Supports react-devtools & redux-devtools (Time Travel Debugging possible)
  - Super easy to test & debug in multiple platforms

The problem we're facing now is that it required both React & QML knowledge. In the new version, I'm working on completely new APIs to support developing desktop application using only React. Would love to hear your opinions on this approach.

[1]: https://github.com/longseespace/react-qml/tree/next/packages...

>I'm working on react-qml to pursue that exact goal: bringing React model to desktop UI development

This project looks really interesting, definitely something I'll be following.

Do you have any plans to expand on documentation a bit more? At present your HN comment tells me more than the README does.

There's already work going on in that direction https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding