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React Native, Nativescript or Native App. Which's the best for code maintenance?

Hi! We are a small company using Nativescript (on Angular) for our mobile app, and after 4 years, we faced some problems that need some expert advices.

Many times we were unable to build or run the app on NS, without changing anything on the code. We were confronted to :

  • code breaks/bug at JS compilation
  • code breaks/bug at Native API compilation/running
  • code breaks/bug related to NativeScript plugins

Most of the time, the problem was quickly solved by doing a NS update, but many times, the NS update and code adaptations (relative to NS breaking changes) was not enough to re-run the app, and then the problems becomes harder and longer to resolve, depending on NS plugins you have.

At this point, we still didn't change anything on the code, excepted the code adaptation relative to NS update, and the only thing we want is to run our existing NS App, which was worked fews weeks ago.

Concerning that point, we have few questions about it :

  • Is there a way to avoid this behaviour on a Nativescript App ?
  • Do React Native Framework have similar problems than Nativescript concerning the maintainability?
  • Is the Native App developpment avoid this kind of behaviour ?

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