REACT NATIVE DEVELOPERS

Regarding performance, hybrid applications -such as Ionic- are arguably slower than cross-platform ones -such as React Native-, as their speed depends on the WebView. React Native has been gaining popularity for its speed regardless of the platform. Apps built using Ionic can be used in different platforms including Mobile, Desktop and Web. In contrast, React Native needs to be rewritten on the new platform. Developers that use React Native need to acknowledge platform-specific logic and frameworks in order to achieve native app development. It requires more effort but React Native was created to accomplish native behavior on every platform. Therefore, most of its components come with a platform-specific logic that has an equivalent in other platforms.

You can build your app in Ionic by using Angular, Javascript, HTML and CSS. React Native is based on the Javascript framework React and, thus, uses Javascript code that resembles HTML but essentially isn’t; it’s called JSX. Testing an app that uses Ionic can be done in any browser. React Native needs a device or an emulator. In both scenarios, you can observe your modifications instantly without recompiling your application. Both tools have very large communities (Ionic has AngularJS, and React Native has React), so it should be easy to find plugins or frameworks that adapt to your needs. To this day, React Native has 61,389 starts on Github and Ionic has 33,619. However, Ionic has more questions than React Native in StackOverflow. In both scenarios, you find yourself within a large community that is growing every day, so you can’t go wrong on your choice.