Why I moved to React Native 

Fair enough!

Thanks mate!

Haha yes I am :D

I feel your pain, bro... we dropped a project because of how painful it never worked well with React. Someone said it is very good with Angular

@@oabdulazeezionic is built on top of angular. It is okay. 😅

Ionic is just a pain. Coming from web development it was pretty easy to get started with - but to be honst Ionic is just not good.

Thanks a lot 😊

Thank you 🙂

You can always change opinions about something! ANd yes, added Expo PWA to my list!

@@galaxies_dev wisdom answer...

You can do this quite easily with Expo Modules, got a new course on that: galaxies.dev/course/expo-modules/1-1

There is a page in RN documentation regarding writing native modules and components. Development -> Guides -> Native Modules. I guess this is something you are looking for.

Expo, all the time. Watch my other video on that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q-sKCsscIsc.html

I have convinced my colleagues since like 6 months back so now we build all our new React Native projects with Expo, so far 2 that are almost done and one new starting being worked on soon 😁

@@galaxies_dev Thank you, Simon. You're the best.

React Native in 2018 was really tragic... that's why we have room for improvement. While I'm looking to migrate to flutter too mainly because it has some jobs in its entire ecosystem. React Native is actually doing something different now. Especially with Expo Workflow.

I would actually submit that Flutter being 'More performant' is a myth coming from older versions of Flutter and React Native. Current versions are neck and neck and I'd even give a slight edge to RN as you get more true to native rendering experience. RN only suffers from high computation operations like cryptography, but with the new modules system, it's easy to offload heavy tasks to the native side.

All well said and I agree. Don't get me wrong, Flutter is a big leap of faith for any web dev transitioning but the merits are worth it in most cases.

@@iykazorji8171 It is definitely not neck and neck. Flutter is still a lot more performant, and will stay that way simply because of how Flutter renders the application. Now with the impeller engine it is even faster. React Native is compelling when you want native support, and that is a non-goal for Flutter. This has its merits and demerits. The good thing about native support out the box is that you have all the functionality of the underlying OS, including accessibility and even text functions. For Flutter, something that should be non-trivial (text selection) becomes an issue (Their recent updates take care of a lot of it, but it is an abstraction rather than actually accessing native code). However, Flutter enjoys having amazing DX and cross-platform consistency with great performance. It is really more of an apples to oranges comparison once you really take the time to look at it.

Don't worry, I'm still here!

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Great choice as well!

thats also great

I really wanted to get this working (have been trying the last few days) but it just seems very fragile and kept hitting problems. I started with the NextJs template suggested on the capacitor site. There's not much info for support about this combination so was worried about spending too much time on it

I switched my project from Ionic + Angular to Ionic + Vue and the stability and speed of my app is improved

What about Flutter

Valid points - but some people only want ios + android, and care more about the native performance of those apps. There are different projects, and different tools that work best!

There's React Native for the Web. 🤷🏾‍♂️

with Tamagui you can share the same RN code on RN and web

Thanks! 😃

React native elements , react native paper is there for this same reason

Ionic-capacitor has Quasar

Yes flutter has material design 3 also it is the most hated part from flutter 🙂

good question, i hope not

Ionic unfortunately has already been poorly supported, for a long time.

When I tell people this they think I just dislike flutter the truth is dart has a lot of features that Javascript doesn't have that the only thing and if we want performance we would have gone for native languages to develop the app

I'm a Flutter dev and I can say that this is the most correct comment I've seen about state management. Google decided that the community should better handle state management with packages and that's where the true Flutter war begins. That is also what pushes newer devs away from Flutter when they arw overwhelmed with people telling them which State Management package is better.... Google should pick one, put it into base Flutter, and call it a day. Honestly StatefulWidget and StatelessWidget and InheritedWidget isn't enough.

I think Flutter has some strengths (like the UI elements, I enjoyed the widgets to some degree as well) but so does Capacitor (100% shared code). I simply feel for the masses, RN is the "general" best approach - but for some cases the other frameworks work better. There is simply no single best, just maybe best for case XYZ.

@@galaxies_dev yes absolutely i agree with you. We cannot compare framework to differentiate which is good or bad. However, i have started to work with RN because my teams has been working in React for a long time and adopting RN will be quite easier. Also i would like to thank you for your effort to contribute RN tutorials in future.

@@D_bugitIt would be best approach if we have go with native , but not all company can develop and maintain both apps (ios/android) and not to mention for startup hybrid approach is better. If we don't implement core native features then we can easily adopt hybrid apps and the performance does not matter.

Expo Web has gotten a lot better, and the Solito Monorepo setup with Expo and NextJS app are also very doable for a solo developer. If you don't care about the "nativeness" of your native app, or probably even prioritise the web app higher, then you could go with Capacitor. It really depends on your skills, and what the end result should look like.

@@galaxies_dev thank you for your answer. I`m a beginner but I have a concrete plan what I wanna build. I wanna build a site like indeed or stepstone for an ultra specific niche. The app does not have to be the greatest. It should do the job ig (pun intended)

This perfectly sums up my feelings about the stacks as well! They both shine in different cases.

Ij

I saw on twitter you just revisited React Native about a few weeks ago, I see it's made a great impression?

@@iykazorji8171 Yeah it did. It took a couple days to wrap my head around expo router. After that I enjoyed my experience. This may be partly because I already love React.

I would almost always pick Expo nowadays

@@wezter96 anything specific which is better then CLI?

I have all the respect for Simon, so I'm happy that he found a happy place. All devs need a happy place.

Agree, many devs enjoy Flutter and that's cool - it's just not for me, and I think RN has some advantages. But Flutter shines in other areas and continues to get better all the time as well!

@@galaxies_dev sssssshhhh..... Don't let others know but 1 huge advantage RN has over Flutter is when it comes to Text handling such as copy, paste, select etc... Flutter struggles with that function because they have to build it from scratch while abiding with the normal behaviors of the OS expected function. It's better than before, but it's going to be a while to get it right.

@@kennyfully88 The first actual good argument that comes from a person who seems to use Flutter. All RN devs just constantly crap on Flutter without giving it a fair shot, but the DX of Flutter was SOO much better than RN. When you do an update for React Native, you've to pray that nothing breaks. For Flutter, you'll only be surprised if anything breaks. You have a lot less headache over builds and dependencies with Flutter.

​@@SayWhat6187say whatever you want but don't ever say Flutter is better than React Native Period

The ecosystem is a big reason, agree

Smart choice.

Nope

Depends, both have pro and con If you are similar with JS RN is a go for you If you are not and want from scratch as a mobile developer Flutter is a go for you

I tried flutter and it’s the worst of all worlds imho. Doesn’t use any native libs/features so everything is reimplemented in an almost working way. Also very verbose. RN can be painful too but at least it’s a transferable skill and heavily invested in by Facebook.

Skill issue, I’ve seen my fair share of terribly messy angular repos

Did you watch the whole video?

It is.

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why? shouldn't native more mature and irreplaceable?

So because you tried it and you didn't like it that invalidates Simon's decision to use React Native... Gosh what a self-entitled comment.

@@neneodonkorthis is not personal. Its abot DX

Not really

Just too many downsides for me personally, and too far off from web development!