Can react-native be used with Java and Tomcat, without node?

Question

My team is familiar with Java and we don't have much time to learn "nodejs" and the related "express" framework. We really want to use react-native to develop some application.

I'm frustrated, since I don't know whether I can use react-native with Java and an Apache Tomcat Backend.

If it is possible, what should I do to make it work?

If not, how do make it possible? By using node as the request dispatcher?

Any ideas are appreciated!

Answer 1

Sure you can! React Native is a backend-agnostic technology. Just write your backend in any way you want and expose an API that can be consumed by your application!

For communication with your backend you can use "fetch", "websocket" or "xmlhttprequest". You can find more information and examples in the official documentation: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/network.html