React Native – A popular framework for building Native apps

React Native is a JavaScript framework for mobile apps based on the React JS platform. It’s used in building popular apps such as Pinterest, Tesla, and Bloomberg News. Some of its features include ease of use and code reusability. In this article, let’s take a look at some of the pros and cons to decide if this framework is right for your work and your app development.
After React JS, React Native is here. The robust JavaScript framework is used for creating native mobile applications for iOS and Android.
Based on the React JS platform, the only difference is that it focuses on building mobile applications rather than user interfaces for the browser. To put things into perspective, web developers can now focus on writing code that is “native” by every definition of the word. Both Android and iOS developers can feel comfortable writing code with React Native.
A genuinely diverse framework, React Native combines many different languages. On the surface, it is written in a mix of JavaScript and JSX, a JS version of XML. Below, you have the React Native “bridge” that combines Objective C and Java for iOS and Android, respectively. Your application, therefore, renders like a real application rather than a browser app.
Filled with APIs, the React Native platform provides you multiple options to integrate features with your application.
As a framework, it is really popular as well. Apps like F8 , Bloomberg news, Pinterest, Skype, Tesla, Adidas Glitch, and Walmart are built on, or have some integrations with React Native.
With so many companies already using the platform, it should be clear that the React Native platform is suited for both production-level, and smaller-scale applications. Many mobile app development services companies, in fact, are using the React Native stack to cater to clients.
Every platform or framework, however, has its list of pros and cons. Let us look at some of the pros and cons associated with using React Native.
Having background in both React Native as well as Ionic, I can say that for any new app, you should choose React Native (if you have some know how of React). The cross platform mobile app development hits it’s limit soon. Although if you are building something more B2B and simple, then Ionic is also not bad (You need some background on Angular to get up to speed in Ionic).