REACT NATIVE: MAKING APP DEVELOPMENT FASTER AND EASIER

I had a chance recently to work with one of the newest frameworks: React Native. Here are couple of my thoughts about this:

One of the first things that surprises people about React Native is that it's actually  native. In React, a component describes its own appearance. React then handles the rendering for you. A clean abstraction layer separates these two functions. In order to render components for the web, React uses standard HTML tags. This same abstraction layer, known as the "bridge," enables React Native to display the actual rendering APIs on iOS and Android. On iOS, that means that your React Native components render to real UI Views, while on Android, they'll render to native views.

The client recently asked to develop an email marketing tool to analyze emails from any corporate mail box to generate notifications, categorize clients, and schedule emails and notifications. I decided to use React Native and found that it facilitated fast and efficient cross-platform development, enabling to create new native apps with full computability without writing code for building two separate apps.

Digging deeper, I found that React Native has a few additional benefits:

1.  React Native uses Ecma6  also known as ECMAScript 2015, the latest version of the ECMAScript standard.

2.  It enhances layout: React Native uses Flexbox for creating layout so you can use the exact same layout code for Android, iOS, Microsoft, and the Web.

3.  You can easily write and add modules and extensions.

4.  React Native facilitates efficient code reuse.

As for now, React Native is still in the development process and not all features of native SDK are available directly in React Native. Hope that products like Apple Watch, Apple TV, Android Watch, and other devices will soon be supported. Because React Native is open source, it’s not difficult to write the code, so I expect this to happen soon. I am even anticipating React Native to be used by Samsung for their SmartTV.

And, if you’re not familiar with React JS, it may be hard to understand this framework’s ideology. I’d suggest you switch from standard MVC architecture to modern React architecture.

In general, I think that React Native is revolutionizing the ability of developers to write clean, responsive mobile applications across platforms, getting them to market more quickly and less expensively. Should it be the default direction you should take? Only if the platform works with your clients’ technology. But even in these still early stages, we’re recommending it.

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