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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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.

Roshan R.

Mobile Application Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/23/2022

"Best choice for hybrid application"

5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

The strongest pillar of React Native is the community as you can rely on it whilst creating any critical application. It also helps you ease with the development and delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

At times when switching from a lower version to the latest version of react native, you have to be careful so that the business does not hamper or outdated any feature present in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/15/2021

"React Native"

4/5

What do you like best about React Native?

1. It is a cross platform library which gives benefit of write-once and run anywhere because app written in react native can run on both android and IOS.

2.It is a JS library, hence all the JS developers can pick up react native quickly.

3.It has faster refresh rate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

Few native libaries are not available in react native beacuse of which we have to still use few native libraries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering React Native:

If you have your app to use native libraries more like an IoT product better to use native instead of react native Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

A hybrid app is a significant problem that I am solving. If not, we have to write individual codes for android and IOS apps which saves a lot of time and resources

The huge benefit is, it uses underlying native libraries, which gives a native feel to the app, unlike a hybrid app that does not use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Courtney D.

Marketing

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/15/2022

"React Native for mobile app development"

5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

React native is easy to learn and is a fun framework to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

There are many ways of doing something better and often you need to think of which one to use and this takes time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hiren S.

Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/17/2021

"Easiest way to start mobile app development"

4.5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

It's based on React/JavaScript, which helps start quickly for react/web developers and has all the advantages of React.

Really good documentation.

Backed by a huge community supports that helps in getting all questions answered and find many alternatives for component/routing/http-client libraries. And the availability of npm packages is just sweet.

And of course, Cross-platform support is always the most productive and time/resource saver.

React Native clients like expo has support for web as well along with android/ios.

Unlike web app, it gives the native feel to the UI for android/ios apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

The styling can be inconsistent on some of the components across different os versions or platforms, leading to making simple things complex.

It's slow compared to native apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/17/2022

"React solves the problem of the view layer very well."

5/5

What do you like best about React Native?

JavaScript + JSX turns out to be a much more powerful templating language than any custom HTML templating language like Handlebars. Overall the development experience with React is very satisfying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

Sometimes components turn complex, leading to understanding issues when reviewing back code again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dhyey T.

Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/4/2021

"Better alternative than Ionic, Cordova"

4/5

What do you like best about React Native?

It gives access to the native APIs of the platform powered with React it is easier to learn for web developer and also single codebase for multiple platforms is the main thing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

The performance isnt still as good as the native apps, flutter is better alternative Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shivam S.

Technical Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/11/2021

"Very useful for cross platform application"

4/5

What do you like best about React Native?

Using a same code we can run the application on Android as well as IOS which is quite useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

Emulator creating issues like expo while running the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek J.

.NET Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/12/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"React native review"

4/5

What do you like best about React Native?

Now a days choice for many developers. react js is performative and productive library with numerous advantages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about React Native?

Animation and screen transition required but not supported in react native. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.