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NativeBase vs PhoneGap: What are the differences?

NativeBase: Experience the awesomeness of React Native without the pain. NativeBase is a free and open source framework that enables developers to build high-quality mobile apps using React Native iOS and Android apps with a fusion of ES6. NativeBase builds a layer on top of React Native that provides you with basic set of components for mobile application development. This helps you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms; PhoneGap: Easilily create mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. PhoneGap is a web platform that exposes native mobile device apis and data to JavaScript. PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. PhoneGap allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's sensors, data, and network status.

NativeBase and PhoneGap can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.

NativeBase and PhoneGap are both open source tools. It seems that NativeBase with 12.2K GitHub stars and 1.45K forks on GitHub has more adoption than PhoneGap with 4.15K GitHub stars and 974 GitHub forks.

WebbyLab, Binary.com, and Infoshare are some of the popular companies that use PhoneGap, whereas NativeBase is used by Evand, GeekyAnts, and Katomi. PhoneGap has a broader approval, being mentioned in 86 company stacks & 36 developers stacks; compared to NativeBase, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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Javascript
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Backed by Adobe
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Free
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Easy and developer friendly
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Support more platforms
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It's javascript, html, and css
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Common code base across all mobile platform
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Not bound to specific framework
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Powerful Framework
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Runs on mobile browser
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Similar UI across all platform
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Free easy fast and not buggy in my experience

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Never as good as a native app
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Created for web pages, not for complex Apps
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Poor user experience
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Not build for high performance
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What is NativeBase?

NativeBase is a free and open source framework that enables developers to build high-quality mobile apps using React Native iOS and Android apps with a fusion of ES6. NativeBase builds a layer on top of React Native that provides you with basic set of components for mobile application development. This helps you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms.

What is PhoneGap?

PhoneGap is a web platform that exposes native mobile device apis and data to JavaScript. PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. PhoneGap allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's sensors, data, and network status.

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