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Every business thrives on its clients’ requirements. The other factors like the size of the business, the availability of resources, the availability of time and budget, the availability of skilled development team caper significance while deciding about the tools/technologies to be used to develop the problem at hand. Spending adequate resources (monetary and non-monetary) does help the business in meeting their project deadlines without actually compromising on efficiency.
Businesses are relying on digital marketing strategy more prominently during the COVID-struck pandemic. Small-Medium-Larger companies are now in tracing new grounds where there is the less potential effect of natural calamities and more such losses. They no longer wish to claw the hours back and all the expenses that they do to promote their business across platforms. Organizations want their businesses to span across platforms, to be popular amongst all device users. They, therefore, work on technologies that converge both traditional and technology-driven modern ways across platforms.
Businesses look for a quick profit and maximum productivity with minimal or just sufficient input. They seek help from cross-platform app development frameworks or hybrid frameworks with compatible backend/frontend programming languages. Businesses look for rapid development, speedy testing and less frequency of errors. The development of cross-platform apps requires selecting a programming language that can be coded once and executed on multiple platforms. Ionic, React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Adobe Corona SDK, jQuery Mobile, Appcelerator Titanium, QT, Sencha, Unity 3D are some prominent cross-platform app development frameworks in 2020.
| Serial | Points to Justify | React Native As A Cross-Platform App Development Framework |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | User Interface | React Native comes with external UI kits like React Native Material Kit, React Native Elements and Native Base that helps to create apps better than Flutter. Plus various built-in components make it easy to create effective interfaces. |
| 2 | Backend/Front End Language | React Native is based on JavaScript. |
| 3 | Code Structure | The syntax formation and structure of code is typical. |
| 4 | How well the apps look? | React Native relies heavily on third-party API’s affecting the overall performance of the application in some shape or form. |
| 5 | How is App Performance? | React Native makes use of JavaScript bridge to initiate the connection that eventually affects its performance. |
| 6 | How old is it? | React Native is one of the first frameworks that got introduced for the development of hybrid applications. |
| 7 | Configuration and Setup | Lacks a streamlining setup and configuration |
| 8 | What is the percentage of Industry Adoption? | Many big brands have been making use of React Native for years. |
| 9 | Tooling | Along with the built-in react-native elements, RN also comes along with a large number of IDE’s and tools. |
| 11 | Is documentation available? | The documentation is not very clear. |
| 12 | Examples | React Native is famous too: Walmart, Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram, etc. |
| 13 | Community Support | RN is backed up by a big community. |
| 14 | React Native vs. Flutter | Flutter does not require any bridge to communicate because it contains all the native components in its framework itself. But React Native makes use of javascript to communicate with native modules which eventually affects its performance. |
| 15 | React Native vs. React
| ReactJS makes use of virtual DOM to render browser code. Another way round, React Native makes use of native APIs to render components and JSX for rendering UI. |
| 16 | React Native vs. Swift
| Developers need to create code from scratch while building a Swift app but React Native makes use of internal APIs to run native elements. |
| 17 | React Native vs. Ionic
| Ionic app development goes with the principle of write once, execute anywhere while React Native goes with the principle of learning once, write anywhere. |
While several communities contend for or have documented the positive effects of React Native on the performance of hybrid applications/cross-platform applications, React Native derives all its power from JavaScript thus leveraging the internal APIs to run native elements. This makes the user interface indistinguishable with the native one and gives a better interactive interface with deliberate performance.
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Neeti Kotia is a technology journalist who seeks to analyze the advancements and developments in technology that affect our everyday lives. Her articles primarily focus upon the business, social, cultural, and entertainment side of the technology sector.
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