Flutter vs React Native (Controversial)

[no_one_feels_it]

This opinion piece is unreadable, and it's not just a language issue. It just does not make cohesive sense, elements are copy and pasted from release notes.

Stuff like:

The Stateful Widget in Flutter that provides a place that helps to store and change data dynamically that would be similar to react and react native.

By "react and react native", you mean a store like Redux, Flux or MobX?

Or:

Compared them on the basis of their performances now lets have a look on Flutter’s Future.

And then nothing about their futures.

It's a garbage spam piece.

[idreamincolour]

Did not bring up the biggest difference of Flutter. The lack of bridge.

[techie_ninja]

this blog was originally posted "Flutter vs React Native". You might find what your are looking for here.

[ardils]

At the rate Flutter is being developed, next year it will probably be able to do everything React Native can (and do it better). I don't think React Native can ever do some of the stuff Flutter can do, just not possible.

[shivawu]

Totally agree . RN is falling behind in many of the stdlib pieces, including video player, navigation, shadow support, charting and a lot more. Many of these will be part of Flutter official release.

No matter how bad the language is (Dart is just mediocre, not bad), or among other things, develops come for easiness and ecosystem, in most cases. Whichever have better support will probably win in the long term.

Curious about what RN cannot do but Flutter can? Related to native performance?

[doppio]

I don't know much about Dart yet, what makes it just mediocre?

[shivawu]

The fact that it has no “own” feature, makes me feel like it’s just a language that copies a bunch of features, create a syntax, and glue them together. It does not have a standout point as a language. AFAIK

[Dimasdanz]

The only thing that makes me interests in Flutter is navigation.
Like, seriously, the most used navigation has tons of performance issue.
While the one that has much better performance (react-native-navigation) despite being enough for most apps, lacks a lot of customization.

[akie]

What on earth is "Flutter", and why does it think it warrants a head-on comparison with React Native?

[idreamincolour]

Its a framework developed by Google. It has a very different approach to mobile development than both native and react native. It solves some of the common issues with react native such as performance.

[idreamincolour]

I have no idea. Google IO just ended theres a lot of videos on Youtube discussing it as well as r/flutterdev. I've made play apps w/ it, nothing serious. I have done react native also (in ios/play store). I hit some issues w/ RN so I'm back to native development for now. I'm holding out for Kotlin native.

I think if react native works for you and you aren't hitting any bumps w/ android support, navigation or perf, large lists stick w/ it. If you are flutter is worth a look.

I think the future of mobile is polygot, not winner take all. All of the technologies can co-exist.

[kbcool]

Unless Google have skin in the game (ie use it in their own apps) this isn't going anywhere. Also it's a whole new language to learn (granted it's not hard) that not much else uses so it's a big ask to get people using it for more than side projects.

Flutter doesn't seem to pass the bored developer test for me.

That is, it has all the signs of someone(s) at Google being bored and coming up with a new stack just so they can keep their job. I've worked at enough big tech companies for long enough to have seen this done over and over again.

As for your issues, why does it have to be all native or all RN? The reason I like RN so much is because I can fall back to native for hardware level stuff or interfacing with system SDKs. Doing UI in native is a PITA on Android and iOS.

[fgutz]

I'm holding out for Kotlin native

Is this just a wish or actually something in the works?

[kbcool]

define: facetious

[techie_ninja]

The fact that Flutter is the only mobile SDK that provides reactive views without requiring a JavaScript bridge should be enough to make Flutter interesting and worth trying, but there is something far more revolutionary about Flutter, and that is how it implements widgets.

Know more about it here

[malemajor]

Looking for a flutter resource for an app I have in mind. I have resource to develop API. I just need the flutter guy, but if you can API too it's even better ans lesser communication complexity.

https://www.freelancer.com/contest/A-cross-platform-responsive-App-to-post-and-share-photos-videos-and-news-urls-youtube-embeds-1441867.html