React Native has quickly become one of the trendiest mobile javascript frameworks among developers. Launched by Facebook in 2013 after one of their hackathons, it has been getting more and more traction due to it’s interesting solutions to common app development challenges; including platform fragmentation, code harmonization, and development speed.
Here at Guaraná we like to stay ahead of the trends. We have a strong and knowledgeable team of developers that have been assisting teams in Montreal with this new technology and we’re geared to assist your team into taking full advantage of what this framework has to offer.
HOW TO LEVERAGE ON THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY
React Native allows you to prototype fast and at a very high initial velocity. Implementation of basic features are considerably easy and if needed, they can be extended with native code and views that integrate well with other view controllers. Specifics are easy to learn and isn’t too far from the React framework used in web development.
Additionally, React Native components are unadulterated side-effect-free functions that return what the views look like at any point in time. This makes it easier to write state-dependent views, as you don’t have to care about updating the view when the state changes since the framework take care of this for you.
GENERAL REACT ARCHITECTURE
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KEY BENEFITS OF USING REACT NATIVE TO BUILD YOUR APP
ABILITY TO PARALLELIZE WORK
Async framework display kit allows developers to get rendering off the main thread thereby enabling super smooth animations.
DECLARATIVE STYLE
One of the main reasons for which React Native became popular is its ability to enable developers to write codes that are extremely easy to read, flexible and not manipulative.
SOPHISTICATED GESTURE HANDLING
React Native provides access to native gestures solving the lack of resources around building advanced and sophisticated gesture system.
LESS MEMORY USAGE & SMOOTHER EXPERIENCE
React Native has shown better quality on its performance when compared to other cross-platform solutions.
ACCESS TO NATIVE CAPABILITIES
React allows access to platform specific capabilities and components, including native widgets without getting laggy.
FASTER ITERATIONS
You get to decide how to reload your app to view the changes. It also reduces the feedback loop, which allows the developer to issue over-the-air code updates with instant rendering.
WHAT YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO WHEN USING REACT NATIVE
It assembles HTML to native code in a black box process. As such, if there’s something buggy with React Native, you will have to wait for Facebook to fix it, or fix it yourself.
Performance tuning. Xcode provides an awesome debugger to help you track down memory leaks, or any potential performance issues. You can then make changes to prevent that from happening.
Unable to customize components. If you want to have a more innovative navigation bar for example, or to create your own iOS keyboard, using React Native will not allow you to do that.
WE’RE HERE TO HELP BUILDING YOUR APP
Guarana Technologies operates in both Toronto and Montreal and counts on a team of 20 extremely skilled mobile and web developers that analyze your project in order to leverage this innovative technology.
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