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Pros of Create React Native App
Pros of Flutter
Pros of React Native
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    • 145
      Hot Reload
    • 124
      Cross platform
    • 106
      Performance
    • 90
      Backed by Google
    • 74
      Compiled into Native Code
    • 62
      Fast Development
    • 59
      Open Source
    • 53
      Fast Prototyping
    • 50
      Single Codebase
    • 48
      Expressive and Flexible UI
    • 37
      Reactive Programming
    • 35
      Material Design
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      Dart
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      Widget-based
    • 26
      Target to Fuchsia
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      IOS + Android
    • 17
      Easy to learn
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      Great CLI Support
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      You can use it as mobile, web, Server development
    • 14
      Tooling
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      Good docs & sample code
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      Have built-in Material theme
    • 13
      Debugging quickly
    • 12
      Community
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      Target to Android
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      Support by multiple IDE: Android Studio, VS Code, XCode
    • 11
      Written by Dart, which is easy to read code
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      Easy Testing Support
    • 10
      Real platform free framework of the future
    • 9
      Target to iOS
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      Have built-in Cupertino theme
    • 8
      Easy to Unit Test
    • 8
      Easy to Widget Test
    • 1
      Large Community
    • 214
      Learn once write everywhere
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      Cross platform
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      Javascript
    • 122
      Native ios components
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      Built by facebook
    • 66
      Easy to learn
    • 46
      Bridges me into ios development
    • 40
      It's just react
    • 39
      No compile
    • 36
      Declarative
    • 22
      Fast
    • 13
      Virtual Dom
    • 12
      Livereload
    • 12
      Insanely fast develop / test cycle
    • 11
      Great community
    • 9
      Easy setup
    • 9
      Backed by Facebook
    • 9
      Native android components
    • 9
      It is free and open source
    • 7
      Scalable
    • 7
      Highly customizable
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      Awesome
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      Great errors
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      Win win solution of hybrid app
    • 6
      Everything component
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      Not dependent on anything such as Angular
    • 5
      Simple
    • 4
      OTA update
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      Awesome, easy starting from scratch
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      Easy to use
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      As good as Native without any performance concerns
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      Over the air update (Flutter lacks)
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      Can be incrementally added to existing native apps
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      Hot reload
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      Web development meets Mobile development
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      'It's just react'
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      Many salary
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    Cons of Create React Native App
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        Need to learn Dart
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        Lack of community support
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        No 3D Graphics Engine Support
      • 8
        Graphics programming
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        Lack of friendly documentation
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        Lack of promotion
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        Javascript
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        Built by facebook
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        Cant use CSS
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        30 FPS Limit
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        Slow
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        Generate large apk even for a simple app
      • 2
        Some compenents not truly native

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      What is Create React Native App?

      Create React Native App allows you to work with all of the Components and APIs in React Native, as well as most of the JavaScript APIs that the Expo App provides.

      What is Flutter?

      Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.

      What is React Native?

      React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

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