How to Make a Mobile App with ReactJS?
Judging from the popularity that was driven by our previous article, we understood that our readers find this topic to be hot. Thus, we decided to explicate the narration in order to shed light onto Mr. ReactJS who was able to provoke arguments and feedbacks. Well, which post does this gentleman occupy in the “JavaSript” club? Namely, why is it attractive for developers and profitable for entrepreneurs?
We have interviewed Vitaliy — our Tech Lead — on the topic. He and his developers’ team use this technology and successfully employ it at the creation of mobile applications for startups. Let us get an insight together.
Nowadays both start-uppers and shrewd businesspersons do not underestimate the support mobile application can do for their business. Innovations have become an integral part of our lives, giving us possibilities to coming in full force with our talents, opening new horizons and raising prosperity. It is clear we all want to act efficiently, without wasting time and money. Software development is of no exception.
JavaScript has been used for 20 years already, but its importance has risen over the last few years when it became used in a new capacity. Ten years ago, Java manifested “Write once, run anywhere” principle, and today this task is successfully implemented by JavaScript. One could hardly imagine that JavaScript would be the so promising successor in web programming.
How to use ReactJS in the native mobile app development? Well, it is simply essential at the creation of single-page applications today. React supports virtual DOM together with the browser’s one. This allows it defining which parts of DOM changed, as compared to saved version of virtual DOM. Due to this, the library “understands” how to update the browser’s DOM in the most efficient way.
Developers who are working at front-end always have more work to do than those who work at the back end.
In the kingdom of modern single page applications, server is used as a data warehouse,
and a lion’s share of overall “magic” takes place at front end side — Vitaliy says.
