Ionic vs. React Native, Building a Mobile App
Mobile is huge these days. But development and support of mobile apps is not a small thing. For both – iOS and Android – you need to have separate dedicated teams. There have been couple of attempts to build a unified framework to support both platforms. Examples are Phonegap and Ionic. Getting benefits from a single codebase you also pay the price – application performance. When Facebook introduced React Native to the world a few years ago, many developers treated the open source project with a certain amount of scepticism. Some wondered why another client-side library was needed amongst so many others. React Native was created to make it easier to build native apps. With the framework, view layer consists of React components, which are small fractions of code that describe how your app should look based on input data – that depends on the native platform the app is built on. Native apps usually perform better, certainly when it comes to rendering and animation than...