Wrapping Up React Native
Over three days we’ve been able to build a useful app on two platforms. Using the React Native API it was easy for us to choose whether we wanted to keep things platform-independent or add platform-specific features, such as navigation that users expect on iOS and Android.
All of the code we’ve written is some form of the most modern JavaScript available, enhanced by Facebook’s JSX spec to include XML view tags. It was very easy to make calls to our API, and we’ve been able to access native APIs through either cross-platform or platform-specific components.
Strengths
React Native has a number of things going for it. The included components that correspond to native components are surprisingly easy to implement. You find ...
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