From the course: Choosing a Cross-Platform Development Tool

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Where React Native excels

Where React Native excels

From the course: Choosing a Cross-Platform Development Tool

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Where React Native excels

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- [Instructor] The natural place for React Native to excel is in the speed of the deployed app. Hybrid apps run code inside a platform-specific web component. This layered approach makes hybrid apps slower than your Native counterparts. React Native produces Native apps so they are as fast as any other Native app deployed on the device. At its heart, React Native is a user interface development tool. Rather than use HTML or platform-specific UI components, React Native allows developers to use React Native views, which are then compiled into their corresponding views on a given platform. React Native apps use the same UI components as regular iOS and Android apps. Instead of using Swift, Objective-C, or Java to put them together, though, you use JavaScript instead. While you can write Vanilla JavaScript in a React Native app, the true power comes from using ECMAScript to create your React Native app. ES6 is a set of…

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