The Apps You Use Daily Built in React Native

Before the existence of React Native, developers were building apps under the native platform development environment or using other cross-platform mobile app development solutions, like Xamarin, Ionic and Apache Cordova, etc.

After React Native’s introduction in 2015, the entire scenario changed. It filled the gaps in the app development world and became the most favoured cross-platform framework for developers and businesses.

Described by its creators as “A JavaScript library for building user interfaces,” React focuses on the view portion of your application. In more concrete terms, this means that when you are writing a React Native app, your view code will consist of writing React components. These are small pieces of code that describe how a portion of your app should look based on some set of input data.

What is React Native?

React Native is an open-source mobile application framework, which means there is a high chance of getting help from other developers and the community if you face issues. Hot reloading allows you to immediately visualize what you create, which makes mobile app development a lot more productive.

React Native does not use HTML or CSS. Instead, messages from the JavaScript thread are used to manipulate native views. React Native also allows…