<story><title>One month with React Native</title><url>https://www.whitesmith.co/blog/one-month-with-react-native/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hamstercat</author><text>Coming from a background of WebViews hybrid development (Cordova&amp;#x2F;Ionic), React Native simply blew my mind. How I see it is you get the UI advantages of doing native development, with the advantages of using React for the front-end just like I would for the web and going the native way whenever you need to.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think all projects should be done with it as native development still has its place for certain kind of apps, but for a typical thin-client app wrapping a web service, it&amp;#x27;s really great.</text></comment>
<story><title>One month with React Native</title><url>https://www.whitesmith.co/blog/one-month-with-react-native/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vbezhenar</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m going through a similar experience. I have some experience with Objective C and iOS, almost nothing with Android and I have good experience with (non-mobile) Java. Basically I have a week to build Android app which should be quickly ported to iOS. So far my experience is mixed. React Native feels like very powerful tech. But standard library is very minimal, tooling looks very fragile (it works, but I&amp;#x27;m very afraid of the moment when those thousand node-gradle scripts will break), things like navigation look very complicated (I investigated react-navigation, had quick glance over other solutions and finally decided to roll my own tiny navigation and animated menu). Modern JavaScript is OK, I guess, though it&amp;#x27;s so far from proper typed language with proper tooling like Java.&lt;p&gt;What I wish to exist is something like Kotlin with react-native like library, with single good cross-platform library of components and good solid tooling.&lt;p&gt;Facebook developers are awesome, but they are paid for Facebook apps, not for making good library, IMO, good library is just a by-product which they kindly shared and it feels everywhere.&lt;p&gt;Overall I think React Native is the best cross-platform solution out there. It doesn&amp;#x27;t carry overhead of bundled HTML webview, its view is advanced enough for complex GUI, it provides smooth animations and React is something very interesting actually. Also you can push updates without app-store approvals, if I got that right (I&amp;#x27;m not sure about Apple). For apps built in haste with multiple bug-fixes every hours it&amp;#x27;s important.</text></comment>