Building mobile apps in React Native
Ionic and React Native If you’re looking to develop mobile apps with anything other than the native toolsets, you’ll most likely find yourself evaluating Ionic and React Native as two of the most common alternatives. Both have a large community of passionate developers, are used heavily in large enterprises, and can lay claim to many popular consumer apps. But today, I’d like to focus on how Ionic and React Native are different, and what these differences mean for those who are evaluating cross-platform development approaches. Most people assume that all cross-platform frameworks work similarly and that the decision is as simple as choosing the stack with which you’re most comfortable. If you’re a React shop, choose React Native; if you’re an Angular shop, choose Ionic (setting aside that, now, Ionic 4 works with any JS framework , including React). The truth of the matter is this decision isn’t nearly as simple as one would expect. You’ll see, as we compare ourselves, w...