React Native: Will Cross Platform Development take over the future?

React native maybe the new, but has plenty of things to offer. Is this the long-awaited path towards cross-platform mobile development It all begins with the intent of Facebook to make the development across mobile platforms quicker and with fewer developer’s efforts. Being highly restricted by the specifics of the native platform languages, Facebook might not update their mobile apps as quickly as they did it with their website.

React Native App Development

The attractiveness of the react-native app development is that the engineers were able to create one codebase which will fit any platform without the necessity to learn iOS and android programming languages, Hence, this approached was hence names as “learn once, write anywhere”. Right now, there are more than 15,00 RN contributors with more than 12,000 commits that are registered on Github.

React Native vs Hybrid

When clients say that they need a mobile application for all platforms, then they think that they only need one app, not three apps are written by the different team for iOS, Android, and Windows phones as well. The native apps are always the best option for each individual platform as far as the look and feel and performance are concerned.

React Native vs Hybrid

However, despite these benefits, the native app development is much slower and much more expensive as we all know that mobile devices vary widely and different mobile devices have a variety of screens. Another option is hybrid development and there are many hybrid apps like Untapped etc in the app stores today. With the help of some frameworks like Cordova and ionic, hybrids can easily cope with most of the standard's features and mimic native behavior.

Why react native is so cool these days?

There are various reasons that make react native so cool these days among which some of them are described below as:

JavaScript is rendered into platform-specific languages

Though it is not exactly like pushing the make it all good button, development with react native is still much easier and quicker than any other platform-specific or hybrid development. Around 80-85% of the JavaScript code can be rendered to the mobile platform languages with the help of ready-made native components.

Easy to learn if you know react

It is quite easy for the developers who are experienced with react to understand the react-native specifies since they both use the same reactive programming paradigms. There are lots of tutorials available that make it possible to master these skills quickly.

Flexbox and SVG for adaptive UI

React Native 

Another most beneficial step of react native development is that it uses flexbox technology for the layout that adapts the code for different OS versions and screen sizes.

Not many developers required

Most of the apps can be written by one JavaScript developer, as there are lots of ready to use the components which works with the phone hardware like Bluetooth, GPS, accelerometer, camera and push notification and thus allows fulfilling any typical task.

Converting app is easy

If you have already a web application that is written with React, then you can quickly migrate it into the RN mobile version. Hence, this is obviously much simpler than writing it from scratch.

Conclusion

The technology is skyrocketing and maybe while we are writing this article, will help you to understand some new components and solutions are already added behind the react-native stack.

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