What is create-react-native-app ?
As someone who comes to React Native from iOS and Android background, I like React and Javascript as much as I like Swift and Kotlin. React Native is a cool concept, but things that sound good in theory may not work well in practice.
Another layer of abstraction
Up until now, I still don’t get why big companies choose React Native over native ones, as in the end what we do is to deliver good experience to the end user, not the easy development for developers. I have seen companies saying goodbye to React Native and people saying that React Native is just React philosophy learn once, write anywhere, that they choose React Native mainly for the React style, not for cross platform development. But the fact can’t be denied that people choose React Native mostly for cross platform development. Write once, deploy many places is so compelling. We still of course need to tweak a bit for each platform, but most of the code is reuse.
I have to confess that I myself spend less time developing than digging into compiling and bundling issues. Nothing comes for free. To be successful with React Native, not only we need strong understanding on both iOS and Android, but also ready to step into solving issues. We can’t just open issues, pray and wait and hope someone solves it. We can’t just use other dependencies blindly and call it…
