Xamarin Forms render to nearly every UI platform thinkable. However, they don't render (or perhaps transpile) to HTML and JavaScript.
I envision a rendering engine that takes the Xamarin Forms markup and converts the markup to a HTML form with code generated for data model binding in a similar way to how Xamarin Forms work on iOS, and Android etc.
A lot of people may be taken aback by this concept because the point of Xamarin is to get away from web apps - not move back toward the web. I agree on this. But, at this point in time, we need to build a web (HTML/JavaScript) app. We'd love to design our app so that the forms can be reusable on another platform.
We could create our own markup language that transpiles to HTML/JavaScript, and also to Xamarin Forms. But, this seems silly. Xamarin Forms is already a great middle tier between the conceptual forms, and any given platform. So, why reinvent the wheel?
My question really is: is there a Xamarin Forms to HTML/JavaScript transpiler in existence? What are the kind of hurdles that might exist around building one of these?
