React Native Reviews & Product Details

React Native is an open-source framework developed by Meta Platforms that enables developers to build native mobile applications for platforms such as Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows using JavaScript and React. By leveraging React's declarative programming model, React Native allows for the creation of rich, high-performance user interfaces that are rendered using native components, ensuring a seamless user experience across different devices. Key Features and Functionality: - Cross-Platform Development: Write a single codebase in JavaScript and deploy it across multiple platforms, reducing development time and effort. - Native Components: Utilize a core set of platform-agnostic native components like `View`, `Text`, and `Image` that map directly to the platform's native UI building blocks, ensuring high performance and a native look and feel. - Hot Reloading: Instantly see the results of code changes without rebuilding the entire application, enhancing developer productivity. - Modular Architecture: Easily integrate with existing native code and third-party plugins, allowing for the incorporation of platform-specific functionalities when needed. - Strong Community Support: Benefit from a large and active community that contributes to a vast ecosystem of libraries, tools, and resources, facilitating faster development and problem-solving. Primary Value and Problem Solved: React Native addresses the challenge of developing separate codebases for different platforms by enabling a unified development approach. This not only accelerates the development process but also ensures consistency in user experience across platforms. By using JavaScript—a widely adopted programming language—React Native lowers the learning curve for web developers transitioning to mobile app development. Additionally, the framework's ability to render native components ensures that applications maintain high performance and a native appearance, meeting user expectations for responsiveness and aesthetics.

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Meta Platforms, Inc

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React Native Community

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Ahmed Shatat

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

13 months

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Krisid M.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/10/2022

"Great framework for small to medium mobile applications"

5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

The simplicity of creating UI elements and navigation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

Compatibility/issues of 3rd party libraries with the native environments(ios/android) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patricio Alejandro G.

Full-stack Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/20/2022

"Marvelous tool for mobile app developing with less effort"

5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

The fact you don't need to have knowledge about Swift or Kotlin, because a compiler does that for you, and the syntax is similar to pure React. Also, you have Expo which is a less customized tool but a highway to use React Native. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

When you're not working with Macintosh products, you can't render iOS or preview how your app would look like. Really, you can, but you need to set up a virtual machine and it consumes a lot of memory and other resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sid K.

Sr. Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/23/2022

"One code for 2 platforms"

4.5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

You don't need separate teams for IOS App Development and Android Development.

A single team of React Native can develop applications for both platforms.

It has beautiful inbuild, precoded animations.

Code is easy to maintain and manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

Setting up React Native is hard, it might take too much time of you to set up React Native development environment.

Too many unstable dependencies for React Native, which become obsolete after npm upgrades and then the code starts malfunctioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/29/2022

"React Native with Django"

4.5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

The DRF(Django REST Framework) does all the hard stuff, once the RN app is ready the integration with the Django backend is piece of cake. Moreover, the dev experience in RN is too good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

The debugging in react-native feels impossible sometimes, as Facebook had never been so much concerned about the part. Memory management could have been better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering React Native:

If you want to save time in integration and development time then go for the React Native and Django. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is React Native solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not having to develop separate apps for android and ios, just write once and it will be applicable for both the platforms. It is a powerful experience. It saves a lot of development time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gabriel E.

Full Stack Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/26/2022

"React Native with serverless backend"

4.5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

Ease to deploy apps in both platforms ios and android using just javascript Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

Difficult to get a native app performance as well as compatibility problems with some packages and the lack of documentation to build something different than a normal e commerce app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/16/2022

"A No Brainer"

5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

The developer experience has improved drastically since I started developing with React Native in 2017. The debugger, environment management, and community-driven deployment tooling have all really taken off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

With growth comes complexity. Updating React Native can be a bit of a hassle, more-so because of the large list of dependencies -- many of which are core to the app -- that also need to be updated to support the latest version of React Native. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ali S.

Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/17/2021

"Best Cross Platform Mobile App Development Framework"

5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

React Native uses use native module for both ios and android; it gives the feel of native applications. Its in javascript so very easy ti understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

Instability across the library integration. A bit slow compared to a native app, native module linking issues. A bit difficult to learn for beginners. documentation should be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ARJUN J.

Full Stack Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/20/2021

"Try this out if you are a native developer for mobile apps"

4/5

What do you like best about React Native?

When Facebook launched the native flavour of react I was really wondering what they have bought but surprisingly react native tag line itself says Learn once Write anywhere and that's true. With this one technology any react developer can develop android, iOS, windows, and Mac applications in one code with one code base and that's the best part. As it uses the native library so, developing native apps using react has become soo simple by its wonderful organised documentation. Also it has god wonderful react native community to discuss. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

As it works with javascript and typescript along with JSX its responsiveness is not that great compared to other native technologies. This should support lot of other custom Ui components to integrate with react native. When it comes to debugging it is not great for a developer to debug it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jamie C.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/4/2022

"Implementation drives results"

5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

Easy to work with, great documentation, good support and the ability to unify with our customer database and automated marketing platform is essential for a startup like us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

Performance can be tricky and some of the controls require custom work. That said, we find it meets most of our needs and have been happy with our selection to use this technology. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering React Native:

Ensure you have good integration with design team and an understanding of how you will implement custom controls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is React Native solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using react to power a progressive web application built on amazon web services. this has allowed us to deliver a unified app experience across multiple platforms with one codebase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Accounting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/5/2022

"Market disrupting technology in mobile app development"

3.5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

Easy for a react and JS developer to move into mobile app development without the extra learning of native language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

Some of the functions which are hardware related cannot be developed with react native Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.