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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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