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Pros of Expo
Pros of Flutter
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  • 15
    Free
  • 13
    Hot Reload
  • 9
    Easy to learn
  • 9
    Common ios and android app setup
  • 6
    Open Source
  • 6
    Streamlined
  • 5
    Builds into a React Native app
  • 2
    PWA supported
  • 1
    Plugins for web use with Next.js
  • 145
    Hot Reload
  • 124
    Cross platform
  • 106
    Performance
  • 90
    Backed by Google
  • 74
    Compiled into Native Code
  • 62
    Fast Development
  • 60
    Open Source
  • 53
    Fast Prototyping
  • 50
    Single Codebase
  • 48
    Expressive and Flexible UI
  • 37
    Reactive Programming
  • 35
    Material Design
  • 31
    Dart
  • 30
    Widget-based
  • 26
    Target to Fuchsia
  • 21
    IOS + Android
  • 17
    Easy to learn
  • 16
    Great CLI Support
  • 15
    You can use it as mobile, web, Server development
  • 14
    Tooling
  • 13
    Have built-in Material theme
  • 13
    Good docs & sample code
  • 13
    Debugging quickly
  • 12
    Community
  • 12
    Target to Android
  • 11
    Written by Dart, which is easy to read code
  • 11
    Support by multiple IDE: Android Studio, VS Code, XCode
  • 10
    Real platform free framework of the future
  • 10
    Target to iOS
  • 10
    Easy Testing Support
  • 9
    Have built-in Cupertino theme
  • 8
    Easy to Widget Test
  • 8
    Easy to Unit Test
  • 1
    Large Community
  • 214
    Learn once write everywhere
  • 174
    Cross platform
  • 169
    Javascript
  • 122
    Native ios components
  • 69
    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
  • 6
    Awesome
  • 6
    Great errors
  • 6
    Win win solution of hybrid app
  • 6
    Everything component
  • 5
    Not dependent on anything such as Angular
  • 5
    Simple
  • 4
    OTA update
  • 4
    Awesome, easy starting from scratch
  • 3
    Easy to use
  • 3
    As good as Native without any performance concerns
  • 2
    Over the air update (Flutter lacks)
  • 2
    Can be incrementally added to existing native apps
  • 2
    Hot reload
  • 2
    Web development meets Mobile development
  • 2
    'It's just react'
  • 2
    Many salary
  • 1
    Ngon

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Cons of Expo
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    • 29
      Need to learn Dart
    • 11
      Lack of community support
    • 10
      No 3D Graphics Engine Support
    • 8
      Graphics programming
    • 6
      Lack of friendly documentation
    • 2
      Lack of promotion
    • 1
      Https://iphtechnologies.com/difference-between-flutter
    • 23
      Javascript
    • 19
      Built by facebook
    • 12
      Cant use CSS
    • 4
      30 FPS Limit
    • 2
      Slow
    • 2
      Generate large apk even for a simple app
    • 2
      Some compenents not truly native

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    What is Expo?

    It is a framework and a platform for universal React applications. It is a set of tools and services built around React Native and native platforms that help you develop, build, deploy, and quickly iterate on iOS, Android, and web apps.

    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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    Ionic
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    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.
    JavaScript
    JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
    Python
    Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
    Node.js
    Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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