React Native Is The First Choice For The Application Developers

Every development company wants the shorter development cycle, great app performance, superior app experience. The application which runs on multiple platforms or devices. To fill these requirements of the organizations, Facebook came up with the cross-platform application development framework known as React Native.

React Natives gives you the benefits of Native Application. By allowing you to use the same codebase for both the iOS and Android platforms. In short, we can say that it gives you everything you want such as speed, fidelity, and feel of native applications while retaining what you are used to from React on the web.

So, here we are going to describe everything about the React Native.

What is React Native?

React Native is the application development framework developed by Facebook. With this technology you are not building the mobile web app or the hybrid app. This framework allows you to create a mobile application similar to the native application which is built by using Java and Swift.

How does the React Native work?

If you are familiar with React for the web or you are used to writing codes in Java or Swift. Then it is very easy for you to grab the concepts of this framework. It is using JavaScript library for building the user interface that means when you are writing code on this framework. You can view how your app should look based on the set of input data.

Now we know how this framework works so now it is the time to discuss the benefits of this amazing framework.

Cross-platform

In earlier days developers need to write the different set of codes for iOS and Android platform, which was very hectic and time-consuming. But after the introduction of React Native situation has changed completely. React Native allows developers to run the same set of code on both the iOS and Android platform.

Truly Native

Writing code for the specific operating system is defined as native app creation. Many software frameworks let you believe in its ability to build a good app for iOS and Android. But, in the end, most of them just give you disappointment. React Native allows developers to build the application that truly feels like the native app. It allows sharing the majority of its codebase between platforms, without increasing budget of building the two separate apps.

Readability

Even if the developer is not familiar with the React Native then also it is easy for them to read the codes. Many frameworks require developers to learn an extensive list of concepts which are only useful within the framework. But React Native does not support this ideology.

Declarative Style

In the declarative style of writing code, developers need to tell what they are trying to achieve with the specific code. While in imperative programming, a developer has to specify exactly how to do it. In this type of coding you have less flexibility but being able to describe the state reduces the possibility of bugs.

Component-based structure

The component-based structure allows a web style development approach. It allows developers to build apps with more amazing features and functionalities.

Community Backing

Majority of the code in React Native is written in JavaScript, so you can get the advantage of this framework and its ecosystem. If anyone has experience in development can easily use this framework just with the knowledge of JavaScript, platform APIs, some native UI elements. and other platform specific designs patterns. In case if they need any help, the large community base can help them.

Reloading

Instead of recompiling, developers can easily reload the app instantly. For this, they have two options such as:

• Live reloading will reload the app every time developer edit or save any files.
• Hot Reload only reloads the file developers just edited not the entire file.

Use Native code

Developers can use the Native code whenever they need just because it is very simple to drop down to native code. If the developer needs to optimize the new aspects into the application. It is also easy for the developers to build some part of the application React Native and some part in Native code.

No need to rewrite the existing code

The developer doesn’t need to rewrite code for the existing application. They just need to add the React Native UI components into the existing code. This is the significant advantage of the businesses looking to expand an existing app without having to rebuild the app.

Efficiency

The major problem with Native development is the inefficiency, slower time to development, and less developer productivity. The React Native resolve these problems and this is the only reason behind the popularity of this framework. It brings the high speed, responsiveness, and agility of the application development along with effectual processing and best user experience.

After the stable release, Facebook launched multiple versions in which the developers team of React Native provides many new features, updates, and bug fixes. The latest version of this framework right now is the React Native 0.59 launched on 12 March 2019. So, let’s discuss the new features, updates, and bug fixes in this version.

Hooks are here

React Hooks are the part of this release, which allow developers to reuse the stateful logic across components. The  stable version of Hooks in this patch will help developers to break the one component in the smaller pieces according to their fetching data.

Updated JSC

As we all know that React Native use JavaScriptCore to build the application and updated JSC means performance gains and 64-bit support on Android.

Faster app launches with inline requires

Team of React Native developers want that app developers can build the best performing applications that’s why they introduced “inline requires” feature which helps in improving app startup time. With this feature, apps have the option of loading the resources in the situations where they are needed to prevent the slowing down of the app.

Lean core is underway

React Native is the very complicated and large project, that makes the codebase less approachable to contribute and difficult to test. Lean core is the feature that solves these types of issues by migrating code to separate libraries for better management.

CLI improvements

The best way for the developers to enter the React Native’s ecosystem is the common line tools. but they have long-standing issues and lack of official support. The CLI tools have been moved to the new dedicated group of maintenance and made some exciting improvements.

These are the updates, bug fixes, and new features in React Native 0.59  . If you want to know the detailed information about React Native then you have to reach Techugo.

Techugo already developed lots of apps on React Native so we know how to use the features of this framework and build the best app solution for our client. So, if you have any concerns regarding the mobile application development, consult with our experts.