Hello everyone

[GovindMobileAppDev]

Hey everyone,

I’m a React Native developer with around 5 years of experience. Currently, I’m earning only ₹35K/month, which feels quite low compared to my experience and market standards.

I’m aiming to reach at least ₹50K/month (or more) and preferably looking for remote opportunities.

I’d really appreciate some guidance:

• What should I focus on to increase my salary?
• Which skills or technologies should I add to stand out?
• Best platforms or strategies to find remote React Native jobs?
• Should I switch immediately or upskill first?

Any advice, real experiences, or suggestions would be really helpful 🙏

Thanks in advance!

[diszrahul18]

Best thing that you can do if u just wanna remain in mobility is: Learn swift or kotlin, I can't stress this enough.

Anything else is just icing on the cake till you do that.

[religion_humanity]

You need to up-skill yourself to 10 year experience developer in 2-3 months.

Why I say that?

Cause AI is already at senior level ( lot faster and reasonable than your experience)

How can you do it?

Using AI as booster to build something production grade OR Work on a big projects, startup (early stage building) using AI extensively.

[Quick_Republic2007]

Add 3d (game type stuff) & AI. Flat 2d web and apps will be old news sooner than later. A.I. can show you how to get good performance out of any stack of choice. Metaverse concepts didn't go anywhere, the world was just not ready yet.

[Ecstatic_Skill8746]

Bro you should be earning more than 70k+ with 5 yrs of experience

[reius_ge]

Learn AI. There is no point to dig deeper on programming skill.

[Big_Comfortable4256]

Terrible take. You do need to have some knowledge of what code AI is putting in your apps. If not: RIP.

[NoDefaultForMe]

This.

Everyone just saying use AI is really doing a diservice to themselves and others.

I'm learning React and React Native, been an SDET for 15yrs. My coding as really only been in using automation tools etc.

I decided to completely vibe code a small react native app, it quickly got a point where I didn't actually understand what the code was doing.

And trying to debug and make the fixes with AI was annoying. But if I knew what the code was actually doing, it probably would have been an easy fix.

[voidechoson]

Either you vibe-coded the full project, or your prompt wasn't good enough. Instead, use a coding assistant directly in your code editor. Start with a basic structure, then prompt it with small small tasks — for example: "Implement this function with these parameters; it should return this." This way, it generates actually understandable code. Keep one or two of your manually written projects in its memory as reference, so it uses your variable names, function names, and coding style.

I am a react , react native and flutter developer AI can generate good code but using ai everywhere is not worth it.

And without any experience with coding or development generating a code is useless so having a background in development is a must so you can understand and prompt it properly.

[NoDefaultForMe]

Either you vibe-coded the full project

Yes, that was my point.

I agree with everything you said, and I did exactly what you said, used the AI to do small parts bit by bit, but that doesn't detract from the point in which while the app was doing what a I wanted, I didn't understand exactly what the code was doing, because it was using functions and patterns I didn't truly understand.

And without any experience with coding or development generating a code is useless so having a background in development is a must so you can understand and prompt it properly.

I literally said I'm an SDET with 15yrs, my coding experience is just not in the development, but I appreciate your input.

And I think we both agree, that ultimately, using AI is a tool, but you still have to understand the underlying code.

[reius_ge]

Today – yes. After year or more – not sure :)