React Native

20th December 2019

What Is React Native?

React Native is a JavaScript framework for writing real, natively rendering mobile applications for iOS and Android. It’s based on React, Facebook’s JavaScript library for building user interfaces, but instead of targeting the browser, it targets mobile platforms. In other words: web developers can now write mobile applications that look and feel truly “native,” all from the comfort of a JavaScript library that we already know and love. Plus, because most of the code you write can be shared between platforms, React Native makes it easy to simultaneously develop for both Android and iOS. Similar to React for the Web, React […]
21st April 2018

An Introduction to React Native

React is a framework created by Facebook for data driven web interfaces. React provides a component driven architecture which uses a declarative syntax and is easily extensible. So what is the difference between React and React Native? React was originally created for web user interfaces. The mantra behind React has been “Learn Once, Write Anywhere”. Facebook’s goal has been to “be able to develop a consistent set of goals and technologies that let us build applications using the same set of principles across whatever platform we want.” Given this overarching goal they set out to apply the same set of […]