Chapter 8React Native

When planning out this book, I knew that I wanted to cover some good cross-platform native tools. Having worked on a number of mobile projects, I have continually seen the tension between developers wanting to use the official tools and clients wanting to know if they can get more than one platform “for free.” However, for a long time it seemed like all of the cross-platform tools were unsatisfying. Either they made sacrifices in the user experience by using web technology as a cheap, easy way to get to “cross-platform,” or the tooling and language were weird and nothing any developer with experience on the official tools would want to use.

Some solutions did exist that made cross-platform development fun, powerful, or ...

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