Comment by doozy | Hacker News Reader

Comment by doozy | Hacker News Reader

I evaluated React Native for a project and decided to go with NativeScript instead for a number of reasons:

1. RN releases a new version every 2 weeks breaking my app every time. NS is a lot more conservative between releases.

2. I don't like mixing presentation and logic, RN encourages doing so, NS does not.

3. TypeScript is a first-class citizen in the NS environment, it is not in RN.

4. Angular 2 > React

5. NS created a smaller executable with better performance than RN for my test app.

6. I couldn't get RN to work with one of my older devices (KitKat), and even though dozens of developers had already reported the issue, they don't care. NS worked in the same device just fine.

7. All the tooling around the RN ecosystem is very confusing.

Another vote for 7): I tried a little project in React Native and was intimidated by all the tooling and build steps needed to get my project running on iOS. To be good with React Native you will have to be proficient with all the tooling and all that seems to be a shaky foundation. There are lots of parts that can be updated and can break your project (I say in a vague way).

I have been using RN from 0.19 onwards never broke my app a single time. React encourages thinking in components and component would be tightly coupled. I have many kitkat users on my beta app on playstore. For me reactjs is way simpler. Angualr seems like a jee framework.

On the tooling I presume it is impossible to get help with the html markup, since it is commingled with code? Like there is no way to start writing html in your js function and for the IDE to autocomplete a class name based on the CSS it knows will be loaded on a page. This is sort of coding in notepad. Or are there tools that see through the js and understand how the whole page will fit together?

Wow, hold on guys. This enterprise dude thinks all the tooling around the RN ecosystem is very confusing. Angular 2 must be better then.

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