I'm embarking on a side project. Its a native hybrid app. I've used Phonegap / Ionic / Angular a lot to build apps quickly. I'm researching React Native at the moment. Has anyone who's used both of these have any comments or +/- about each one?
This question has created a lot of buzz in the field of mobile app development platforms. Part reason for the decline in React Native's popularity is due to the emergence of Google-backed Flutter that slowly but gradually started gaining wider acceptance among developers and clients alike.
Definitely. The experience in creating applications using native technologies can for example help in application distribution or working with mobile devices in general. However, creating both the user interface and business code in JavaScript may require a slight change of mindset.
The number one drawback to React Native is performance. It is better than other hybrid tools and web apps, but there's no getting around the large overhead framework that slows down performance when measured against native apps.
I've used both extensively. We have been using React Native in production for about 5 months now, and have previously worked with Ionic / Angular, and Phonegap projects for 3 years.
Here are the pros and cons of React Native, in my opinion, from someone who has fairly extensive experience in both. I'm not going to go into Ionic since you already have some experience there.
React Native Cons:
React Native Pros:
If I were to meet someone and recommend one over the other I would definitely recommend React Native. That being said, PhoneGap / Cordova and Ionic are all still very solid and if you feel productive and are not in the position to spend some time learning a new technology, I would say stick with one of those.
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