Facebook developed React Native in 2015, first for iOS, then Android later in the year. This created a framework in which a mobile app could be built on two platforms at once, while still retaining the native look, feel, and productivity of an app. Initially React Native was using the iOS code repository and syncing to Android, but Facebook later moved to a unified code repository further rationalized React Native. React Native takes the 6th position in the ranking with 14.51% of the votes. With the upcoming trends and technologies React Native is said to be a very popular mobile technology around the world. Despite its weakness, React Native is said to be a powerful tool for platform-independent mobile development. Facebook, Instagram, Airbnb, and salesforce have used React Native in their framework in recent years to gain a competitive edge.
Major Benefits Of React Native
Cost of Development
For a start-up developing a mobile app has to be a calculated decision given the fact money plays a major role. If you have your target audience on both Android and iOS platforms, then a cross-platform mobile app is the right approach, and React Native can help you achieve it at minimum cost.
Time to Market
Time to market is the period it takes from a product being conceived until it’s being available for sale, in the current case, the mobile app. The app’s success depends on time-to-market. To enter the market at the earliest, launching for both iOS and Android can be a smart move. And building the app on React Native cuts the delay.
After-Launch Upgrades
If you have scheduled after launch upgrades for your mobile app, investing in native development is fruitful. The cost of native development is on the higher side.
Instant Live Updates
Since JavaScript is widely used, the app developers can push updates straight to the users’ phone and not necessarily through the app update cycle. Not only it’s great for users but the entire process is also faster, simple, and streamlined.
React Native Apps are Faster
React Native uses JavaScript-based declaration programming models that result in a clean, simple, and easy to acknowledge code. This helps build a highly responsive and fluid app user interface controlling asynchronous JavaScript interactions with the native environment.
Write the code once and use it Everywhere
One of the best unbeatable advantages of using React Native is that the code, written once, can be used in every mobile platform, including iOS, Android, Windows, etc. No need to write separate codes for iOS in Swift or Java for Android or C# for Windows.
Hot Reloading
Hot Reloading helps developers inject new versions of the files and simultaneously keep the app running. There is no loss of data, and the state of the app is not affected, even if you are making minor changes in the UI.
Similar Architecture
React Native provides the same benefits as React.JS in terms of the modular and interactive interface that is easier for ‘React Native’ developers to work with. Given the flexible environment, developers can update web apps, and the testers can easily follow the code logic to build testing scenarios.
Given the benefits of React Native, it indeed has a bright future, also thanks to an increase in the number of smartphone users and therefore leading to an increase in the number of mobile applications.