An Unending Debate

Albeit, React Native is an excellent choice among all present cross-platform mobile app development technologies where compromise with quality remains almost nil and trio of quality with time-to-market, and reduced cost maintained superbly.

A Little Bit about React Native

JavaScript is signifying its presence in mobile app development niche since the inception of hybrid app development technologies and frameworks like Titanium and PhoneGap. Impressive upping of JavaScript libraries have led us from hybrid to cross-platform frameworks with new highs in bringing native-like experiences on the table.

The journey started from Angular JS in Ionic and today every mobile app developer opts to learn React Native framework for cross-platform app development. Thanks to Facebook, which has a carved footprint of the framework on mobile application landscape. Of course, the community of talented developers has fostered it in the open source arena.

Apart from Facebook, Instagram, Walmart, Airbnb, and UberEats like giants and other more than 1,000 mobile apps have used React Native framework for their innovative app concept and functional app development.

Amazingly, the majority of apps are from startups and validating the fact that startups are showing great adaptability besides enterprises. It demands deep thinking about why startups love React Native out of a big pool of the latest JavaScript frameworks and their powerful libraries.

Valid Reasons for that Startups Should Use React Native

If I am going to list the reasons in favor of React Native, the list may be a big one, but here, I am going to cite a few significant only.

Code Once and Cover Major Mobile OS Platforms

Initially, Facebook has iOS platform in mind to gather React Native development team to work on an innovative framework concept. After seeing great success in the iOS app, Facebook has instructed the same React Native developers to extend their JS libraries to support the Android platform.

It means the same libraries are rendering mobile UIs for iOS and Android both with a single code base. Moreover, the same team also is working to give the framework compatibility for Windows and tvOS. In sum, single codebase saves time and resources of app developers without any compromise on app quality and cross-platform support.

Advanced yet Easy Code

Have you ever dive into Java/Kotlin and Objective-C/Swift for native app programming? Daunting indeed. Against those complicated programming technologies, JavaScript is damn easy to go for a novice to seasoned mobile app developers.

Moreover, React Native has improved code that has characteristics of low coding. Code lines are a few in numbers and shortened in length. It immediately cuts the time for testing and overall time-to-market.

Reusable Native Components

Previously, cross-platform developers were relying on WebView components to supplement the functionality of native components in hybrid app development. Fortunately, in React Native, counterparts of native iOS & Android components are existing.

Those also are available as reusable components that can supplement all expected functionality for native-like mobile experiences. For instance, look-n-feel, speed, and other essential functionality of a native mobile app.

No Rewriting for Existing Apps

If an existing app made & running on any native or cross-platform framework, and you think to switch to Native React framework, it might not be a tough overhaul. It is because Native React library supports the incorporation of Native React components directly into the existing code with a nice plugin and save from the rewrite of the code from scratch.

Hardware Compatibility with 3rd Party Plugin

For hybrid or cross-platform apps, hardware support from the devices running on different mobile platforms like iOS and Android is a big issue. It is because hybrid apps are browser/WebView-based where performance is a hindrance.

With React Native, your app does not solely rely on WebView for certain native functions. Native React supports 3rd party plugins using a native module. Thus, the app can access in-built hardware elements of mobile devices such as GPS, Maps, Bluetooth, touch gestures easily. It solves performance and user experience like issues forever.

UI Focused

Unlike Angular JS and Meteor JS JavaScript frameworks, React Native used to focusing on building mobile UI. Therefore, it seems more JavaScript library than a JS framework. It helps in building highly responsive and flexible/fluid mobile UI with seamless interaction thanks to asynchronous JavaScript working in the pure native environment. Thus, you can get high performance and quality cheaply.

Conclusively

We can say that React Native is capable of giving mobile app developers to gain an edge over the competition. It can help developers to attend much-needed trio-quality, timeline, and costs easily. If you are looking for the same trio for your next mobile app development project, Perception System is a known entity in React Native app development community in San Jose, California, USA.

A rich portfolio of React Native designers and developers at Perception System has astounding apps for the leading brands of the world using the React Native framework. Would you like to explore the portfolio and learn how we can help you with the same?