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Benefits of React Native over hybrid app development
By Manish Patel | Wednesday, November 22, 2017 11:57 AM | 3 min read | 379
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In this competitive world, we are looking for those applications which are faster to download, easy to understand, better User Interface, and are available to run on more devices and different platforms. In this article, we are going to discuss the benefits of React Native over hybrid app development. But, before we jump into comparing both platforms, let’s have quick look at native and hybrid app development. Hybrid app frameworks are developed using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript which share the same code for both iOS and Android. On the other hand, React Native applications are developed with languages like Swift and Objective C for iOS, and Java is used for Android. In native applications, code cannot be shared on a different platform.
Let’s have a quick comparison of React Native over hybrid app development
Write once run anywhere
React native: It doesn’t follow write once and run anywhere. It follows the native behavior of the platform.
Hybrid: It runs the same code for a different platform. Thus, it follows the method of writing once and runs anywhere. Hybrid has the capacity to work on both platforms with the same logic.
Testing with development
React Native: During app development, you do not need to refresh the whole page while you make any change in the code. It automatically modifies the result
Hybrid: Same as React Native, whenever you preview the result in a browser it instantly refreshes the result with changes.
Developer’s experience
React Native: It is not very tough to build. Due to native views only, there is no need for Web view. You do not need to check it in every browser that makes it easy and less time-consuming.
Hybrid: During hybrid application development, it automatically inherits all the issues of Web view. Therefore, you need to check it across all browsers that are more time to consume and hard to build.
The Language Stack
React native: It is based on JavaScript and it uses JavaScript with HTML but it is not essential that is why we can call it JSX.
Hybrid: It works on a Model-view-controller pattern and in this method, view, and logic both work independently. It works on an Angular and JavaScript framework.
Plugins
React Native: You can inherit various types of plugins in react native. You can even use Cordova and PhoneGap plugins.
Hybrid: In Hybrid, there is a high chance of an existing plugin. PhoneGap and Cordova are there. Although, many developers sell plugins like ionic for Hybrid app development.
User experience
React Native: It gives a native look and feel, thus the performance will be much better than Hybrid. Additionally, react native is a huge library so you can get an actual result of your expectations.
Hybrid: The performance of the Hybrid application is lower in comparison with React Native. Because the application is originally built for web pages so the performance will differ on all the devices. Especially, Things get inferior to the low-end phones.
Conclusion: In this article, we are not going to degrade any of the platforms because they both work individually and have a separate identity. Both do well therefore neither is better than the others. However, React native is extremely fast and responsive compared to Hybrid. On the basis of performance, one should choose to React Native over hybrid app development.
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