Naturally then as part of the development process, I came to a point where I wanted to debug my application. If I were in a position that I needed those native components the cool thing about React Native is you can write your own components in their respective native language, in this case I could have written a component in Swift to do what I wanted if I was truly determined. There have been a few minor shortcomings - namely the wallet API for iOS - that do not have a plug-and-play solution.

There were a couple of hiccups along the way, namely acquainting myself with all the deployment processes for the App Store, but overall I really like Expo and React Native.Īll in all, I think React Native and Expo are a solid choice for doing cross-platform development of mobile applications. Although I really love Vue, the NativeScript implementation just seemed buggy and lacking in documentation.

I’ve been searching for a good framework that feels polished and is relatively easy to set up and get going with - an experience I found to be lacking when attempting to setup NativeScript + Vue. In my role as Senior Application Developer at Highland, I’ve been doing a lot of dabbling with React Native and the open-source toolchain Expo and found myself feeling pretty positive in general about the experience.

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