React Native vs Flutter in 2021 - Developer Perspective 

really?

@@BERTDELASPEED no bro all over the internet it says that react native has an edge over flutter

@@anshumaanchandra5575 Lol let me check it again

@@anshumaanchandra5575 I just did the comparison again on google trends and Flutter is still up. I did react native vs flutter and flutter comes on top. However when i do flutter vs react, react comes on top but that could be because there's react js and also react native

@@BERTDELASPEED send link here please bro

thing is jobs with flutter is not so open right now. that's an issue I'm worried about.

@@nyctophillia2292 That's because for a company is expensive to chose flutter, there're less developers to hire and also you need to hire flutter devs specifically instead of searching for react / react native developers, also the react native developers could move to web development if needed while the flutter developers not, that means you'll need to hire devs with two different profiles instead of 1, at that point a lot of companies just prefer to hire devs with 3 different profiles and just develop native apps.

@@ivr2132 Honestly just hire react developers and teach them. If they're willing to learn it will take a month or less to get them productive. As long as there's at least 1 senior on the project to manage things and ensure best practice it's fine.

Sure thing: but how more react native developers are hunting those jobs? It's not the absolute number, it's all about the jobs/seekers ratio.

@@yendar9262 If you're good at what you do, more choice is always better, even if there are more people in that space. With Flutter, even if you have less competition, you're going to have limited options in terms of location, salary, type of work etc..

Just because there is more job postings doesn't mean it's better ! Personally I wouldn't build or use anything made by Facebook !!

How you getting this count??

There are already 1130 vacancies on flutter

It depends to be honest, React Native is also active in case of desktop apps, there is also Electron (which also uses JS), so it will be not so easy to take over this market.

@@TomBaranowicz to be honest, you are like a fanboy of react native, you don't compare both of react native and flutter, you just make look react native look betters than flutter

flutter and sense are two different worlds dont use them together

!(your quote);

With react native you can also do the same, with the difference that if you know react native it will be very easy to know react, a library that dominates the web and Javascript which is the most popular language :)

@@cristianfigueredo566 you need Xcode if you want to build ios with react native cli. But if you use expo then you don't need xcode

true, and size is also less

Google knows what you need 😉

So whom are you going to hire now?

Somebody informed me that Flutter's huge bundle size was a big issue which is hardly mentioned by developers using Flutter.

I tried Flutter but I think I'm gonna change to react because there are much much more react native tutorials.

I would choose React Native, if you will not like mobile development, then you can easily switch to frontend development and use lot of skills you already learned.

@@TomBaranowicz is it because of more job opportunities for react native than flutter around the world sir?

@@prakashs8000 wow nice answer sir thanks, I'm agree with that.. in my case, I'm already learned basic JavaScript. If I want to learn react native, do I need to learn react js first? Sorry I'm still newbie but I want to learn and practice to make a portofolio project..

@@sultonmukarobin7745 If you are interested in web development also you can learn reactjs first. Otherwise learning reactjs basics would be enough to start with react native. Both are simillar except the user interface part.

I did some native iOS and Android development (to be fair just quite small projects with each one), but with Flutter it was so easy and fast to make anything, all out of the box, that I decided to dedicate 100% to Flutter. And it is a framework that is growing so fast that I can’t regret, I really recommend it.

Learning react native helped you a lot in learning flutter?

@@mohamedcherif1996 No, I just tried Flutter out and liked it enough that I switched.

I started on react native a few years ago and after having to go back and make edits for ios and android separately, I decided to try flutter about 3 months ago and ended up moving completely to flutter. I quit one of the projects and restarted it in Flutter and made more progress in a matter of a few weeks, that took me over 2 months in react native. I'm actually really surprised and impressed with flutter.

​@@spydergs07 interesting. That's not the experience I had with flutter. Why edits for ios and android separately though? as of late 2017s RN is having 1 codebase for both. Flutter for me was so problematic every step of the way, buggy animations that were part of core flutter and many more issues. I guess everyone chooses what's more comfortable working with.

@@alexkey9372 Fluttee has 1 code base for both, infact it does it better than RN. i guess you should try it again now, its alot better than RN now

@@xpwahab1 Better is subjective. After a disastrous effort last time I'm not tempted. RN has one codebase for both too and I was able to build a solid app within 2 weeks. It now has thousands of members and not a problem. I'd be really scared to give flutter a go once more. If I get some free time to experiment I'd definitely go with swift and kotlin.

@@alexkey9372 I'm pretty sure RN forces you to create the UI for every platform. "Learn once, write anywhere."

For sure, I liked it, however Dart feels like having stron Java roots at least for me, which is not bad, just to be clear.

@@TomBaranowicz I agree. It actually feels like a better implementation of Java, at least to me it does.

No, kotlin and swift are the best.

@@yeilmusic ok

Every framework/library/language has some fans, it's normal :)

Yes, this is why I mentioned, that problem may appear if you are using a lot of fancy animations, otherwise there is no difference in performance, at least for me.

Sure it can, so can Swift but it's missing a lot of libraries and SDK's created by community of web devs ;)

"Especially in design" Strongly disagree.... When it comes to design, it's the other way around

@@d4eva4ce25 react native is more responsive if you create a custom design, plus you don't need too many nested widgets to create a simple thing....

@@d4eva4ce25 plus having styling seperated from widgets (I mean components) is a very good design pattern..... Flutter has a terrible pattern, because it doesn't take styling into consideration.... everything is widgets which is bad.

Think about it in a different way, you know 2 frameworks now ;)

Learning javascript since degree it's so much confusing even now, even though i know every concepts, JS is tough and we need to learn everything about js first in order to learn RN and it's a big sea, we can learn Dart along with flutter, I learned from udemy and believe me in just one month i know more than 60% and actually i know what i am typing and what it does in background it's so fkcin good, whereas in js i couldn't relate to how this works in real life and that's the problem with most people learning programming and js is not object oriented and compiled, Dart compiles itself to native and the best thing is it's engine, It draws everything to screen so even if u r on older android you'll see the same thing, Because everything in flutter is a widget and now it's under the hands of google what's more we want it had issues in past years, But now after Flutter 2 i can say it's better than RN, People choose RN just because of it's big community of JS, where dart lacks, But dart is more flexible and i can see flutter growing Big.

@@saiyednajmuddin I agree with you

@@saiyednajmuddin If you mean flutter by "Dart compiles to native" then it's not the case. Flutter has its own abstraction layer where it renders everything. It doesn't compile to native. That's why flutter team rewrites every native widget by hand in flutter.

@@Axel-st4up that's what i am saying it draws everything to the screen that's the beauty, So no matter which android we are on it will look the same, But dart is a compiled language.

lol, 3 weeks and unfixable bugs?

@@xpwahab1 the issue was related on importing images from web. I have tried every solution on stack overflow. However none of them work.

@@arjhayfrias6594 That is literally one of the simplest things and there's no issue with that. Although Dart and Flutter are changing rapidly, so try to watch a latest video that is updated on how to fetch and show image from internet.

@@xpwahab1 try it then. And let me know.

@@arjhayfrias6594 i've already done it many times.

Having exp in JS, I would play with RN, should be easier for you to jump in and get a job offer sooner than later.

Finally some honest answers. It isn't so one way as what many vids like to promote that Flutter is way ahead of React Native. More and more problems will show when your Flutter apps grows.

Yes, definitely, basics are very important.

With Python it should we easier to find a job I believe, both on backend and frontend, but I like mobile so I would learn Flutter/RN.

It's more consistent, but RN has way bigger community, at least right now.

@@TomBaranowicz which do you think is better for developing for older sdk's ex. api 16 on android ? it seems that many packages on reactnative are not available for api 16 which is a huge draw back , or am i misunderstanding something here ?

So use it, even if you believe in RN more now, learn about Flutter too, if you already spent your money, then get some additional knowledge, it will definitely help you ;)

So flutter is easier to learn, if so why? I have a personal project I am working on and need to decide between RN and Flutter?

there is no such thing as "stealing concept". No coutry in this world protects "concept".

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