I have been an Android developer for 5 years, lately, I'm getting my hands on React Native. This is how I feel about it
To be honest, at first, ...
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This has been like my entire week... super frustrating, especially where there's very common packages that have half updated to newer versions of RN and half held back. There were a few things I tried that I eventually decided were just impossible to install. Not to mention almost all the tutorials and example projects are outdated from the start. It gives a pretty bad impression of the community supporting react, how uncoordinated everything is.
I think uncoordinated is the right word. Please don't get me wrong but, come on! AndroidX has been a subject from more than one year now. Starting this year mostly everything went out of beta to stable, so maintainers have had a lot of time to migrate things. At least in the Android community, we are doing it, and we are even paranoid about it, plenty of us is going with the minimal dependencies approach for fear of incompatibilities. React Native collaborators have done something amazing but I don't think the right attitude is just saying "is not our problem".
As a life long Android developer, I've fallen in love with react native. Keep in mind that there are tooling issues, but it's not like you won't have those with xcode or Android studio with a single platform install. Yes, I run into more problems with react native than I would with just an Android project alone, BUT I have far less problems than maintaining tools and knowledge for Android, iOS, Apple TV, and Android TV.
Over the air updates make it a must in place of native development. We release multiple times a day, running hundreds of combinations of tests. Creating good mobile products is impossible without the speed and release process we have with react native.
I'm a strong believer that it's the future, but yes, some painful tools and integrations. You cannot use RN without knowledge of both iOS and Android native development at the moment unless you jump over to full expo.
The problem with flutter right now is it's lack of Apple TV support, and dart.
Can you send over the air updates without expo? In a
react-native initproject?Yup. Microsoft's code push is what the community uses for over the air updates. Very simple to integrate and use.
Thanks for the write up. Your spot on with many points.
Love it, thanks!!!
I think the new Flutter promise is to be able to be both mobiles and web as well, you should take a look at that then. Then the problem with Flutter it is, that is quite immature still.
Things I have done to improve my React Native development experience:
source <(npm completion)Literally describes my experience with every new stack I've ever picked up. I've just learned to embrace the frustration. ðĪŠ
The really weird thing is that after a week or two, you step away feeling hopeless about it, and the second you pick it back up, it's like second nature to you. ðŊ
Everything makes sense and you're finally productive. So weird how it literally always happens this way.
Nah men, I have work with React, with Vue, does Wordpress count? Rails will work fine as long as you are not in Windows. Even my shallow attempts with Xcode are more stable. Done lot of stuff with Firebase, and believe me, there are a bunch of experimental things there and is still more kind.
By example, how are we going to solve the latest release broke Android? Ok... Im going to PR my way out of this? Surely I would but, damm so when do I finish my project?
Lol, this is so accurate. I thought I was the only one.
This reminds when I start working on Android using Eclipse...