Utterly false. Staying alive has nothing to do with React Native or Cordova or any particular framework. It's about implementing the native APIs that allow that behaviour.

I'm the author of a couple of modules that allow your RN app to operate in the background:

https://github.com/transistorsoft/react-native-background-fe...

https://github.com/transistorsoft/react-native-background-ge...

Both of these modules were ported from Cordova and have since been ported to NativeScript.