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Native, Ionic or React Native

4 pointsby chris_nielsenabout 8 years ago

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pfootiabout 8 years ago
Another thing to look at is nativescript. It is more or less an angular-based analog to react native.<p>I used react native to build a prototype (so thin experience here, it was just a prototype to compare between ionic, react native, and nativescript). It was okay, but felt a lot less complete and polished than ionic. There is some platform-specific stuff and the tooling isn&#x27;t nearly as much fun. The ionic CLI is great. It made me a bit sad that I no longer need my hand-tooled complicated gulp scripts for express dev server, live reload, live rebuilds, and so on, but on the other hand, things work great out of the box. Tooling isn&#x27;t nearly as good with react native or nativescript.<p>Also, the react native layouts are only mostly html. As in, there&#x27;s some stuff that doesn&#x27;t translate well. A well-laid-out react app could get ported across, sure, and react native will get you 90% of the way there, but the last 10% is a bit tricky. Flexbox, for example, isn&#x27;t fully supported (or wasn&#x27;t six months ago, life comes at you fast).<p>Ultimately, they&#x27;re all worth a look, and I think the &quot;which one should we use?&quot; question is best answered by trying them all out and seeing what best fits your needs.