Here Is Why React Native Is The Future Of Mobile Development

Ivana Veljović
Aurity.co
Published in
4 min readMay 2, 2019

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According to statistics around 5200 apps are released on the App Store, and Google Play daily. That is around 4 new apps every 1 minute. So if you have a brilliant idea for a new app, every minute there is a chance that somebody else will release it instead of you.

Having diversity to choose from, users are getting more sophisticated, and they expect to have apps with flawless performance, seamless navigation, as well as aesthetical appeal. If you don’t meet their criteria, which is continuously evolving, your innovative app will quickly be forgotten.

The good side of it, high performing and quality apps take a lot to develop using an old “native” way of coding in comparison with using cross-platform technology that provides faster deployment almost without compromise the performance.

From the urge to adapt to fast-changing demands, mobile app developers searched for enhanced technology to build revolutionary mobile applications. That is why now we have React Native, the best solution to write brilliant and rapidly transforming apps.

React Native has unlocked native mobile development to web engineers who may now apply their skills to build iOS and Android applications in JavaScript. For the first time, cross-platform JavaScript-based applications feel as if they were written in the native language of choice for the platforms.

Jeff Meyerson, the creator of the podcast Software Engineering Daily

Reasons Why React Native Is The Future of Mobile Apps

2in1 (iOS and Android) or even 3in1

Being able to write the app simultaneously for two platforms can cut your time and costs in half. You need just one team or one developer who will ensure that all changes are propagated on both versions. You don’t have to be worried about miscommunication and app differences.

At Aurity we have invested in React Native technology to make it even more powerful. With our framework, we can build not for 2 but 3 platforms at once — iOS, Android, and Web. Adding on top of that best practices and automated infrastructure we deliver apps 7x faster.

Better Than Native

The UI is flawless when building with React Native as it uses native widgets. Along with JavaScript, it can run the most complex apps smoothly, outperforming even the real native apps. That is why developing apps with React Native is possible even for robust enterprise apps.

Great Coding Experience

React Native’s goal is to give developers the best possible coding experience, like seeing the results under 1 second after saving the file. With the feature of Hot Module Replacement (HMR), React Native helped developers to make changes in the source code while immediately seeing the results. With this feature, the app reloads automatically when any code change is made and a development process speeds up significantly.

Moreover, to generate app layouts for both platforms React Native uses flexbox layout engine. With this developers can learn just one layout engine to develop on all platforms including the web.

No Internet — No Problem

Native apps can’t work in an offline environment while React Native stores the device’s data offline and facilitates offline working of the app in any adverse or no network condition. This indeed makes an advantage for React Native.

Stable Community

When choosing technology for your app first, you ask yourself how long will this tach last. Who is behind it and would it be possible to accomplish what you want?

Since Facebook engineering supports React Native, it has a sizeable developing community to back it. This community along with Facebook is continually improving the framework, setting advanced goals and promising the constant technology upgrades. So, for now, you don’t have to be worried that React Native will disappear soon, it can just get better.

Conclusion

React Native is undoubtedly the future of mobile app development as it can build even the most complex apps seamlessly. It is lightweight, fast, cost-effective and fun to code and these are just a few of the many reasons why it is the go-to framework for developers across the globe. Therefore, if you plan to build a successful app, investing in a React Native technology is worth everything.

Moreover, find a team of experienced React Native Developers and get started with your mobile app development project. Use React Native, and you will love every bit of it.

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