[ For teams who already write React ]
Real native components driven from TypeScript, with much of your logic shared with the web. Its strongest argument is not technical — it is that your existing React developers can build the app.
Real native components driven from TypeScript, with much of your logic shared with the web. Its strongest argument is not technical — it is that your existing React developers can build the app.
Tell us what your team already writesReact Native renders real platform views, so the app inherits native scrolling, text and accessibility rather than a drawn imitation.
Validation, types, API clients and business rules shared with your React front end. That is a saving no other cross-platform option offers.
Managed builds, updates and native modules without maintaining two native projects. We drop to bare only where a dependency demands it.
Reanimated and Gesture Handler so interactions stay at sixty frames even when JavaScript is busy — the classic React Native complaint, solved deliberately.
Store apps for both platforms with onboarding, notifications, payments and offline support, sharing types and logic with your web product.
Where the product is both. One monorepo, shared validation, types and API layer, and two interfaces built for their own platform.
Inherited React Native on an old version with a stalled upgrade path. Version upgrade, new architecture, dependency audit and performance work.
React Native pays most when you already have React developers. If you do not, Flutter is usually the better cross-platform choice and we will say so.
Expo for almost everything now. Bare only where a native SDK genuinely will not work in it — and that list is much shorter than it used to be.
Types, validation and API clients in a shared package with the web app; interface code kept separate, because sharing components across web and native rarely ends well.
React Navigation with typed routes, MMKV for fast local storage, and lists that are virtualised from the start rather than after they get slow.
Animations and gestures on the UI thread, heavy work off the JS thread, and profiling on a mid-range Android where the difference actually shows.
EAS Build for both platforms, over-the-air updates for JavaScript-only fixes, staged rollout and crash reporting.
The strongest argument for React Native is organisational rather than technical. If your team already writes React and TypeScript, they can build and maintain the mobile app without hiring a separate discipline, and a meaningful share of the logic is shared with the web product rather than reimplemented.
Its weaknesses are also known and manageable. Version upgrades used to be painful and Expo has largely fixed that; animation jank used to be common and Reanimated has largely fixed that. What remains is that anything heavy on the JavaScript thread will show, which is a design constraint you work with rather than around.
Managed builds, updates and native modules without maintaining two native projects. Going bare needs a specific reason, not a preference.
Types, validation and API clients travel well between web and native. Components do not, and forcing them produces something that fits neither.
Animations on the UI thread, heavy work off the main path. Jank in React Native is nearly always something blocking JavaScript.
Fabric and TurboModules removed the old asynchronous bridge, which was the source of most performance complaints. Upgrading to it is now the main modernisation task on older apps.
Config plugins and development builds mean Expo now handles almost every native dependency. Bare workflow has become the exception rather than the serious choice.
Shipping a JavaScript fix without a store review is a real operational advantage, within the store rules on what may be changed that way.
React Native if you already have React and TypeScript developers, or if sharing logic with a web product matters — those are real savings. Flutter if you have no JavaScript background, or if you want the two platforms to behave identically with fewer surprises. Both are mature and the team is usually the deciding factor.
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