React Native is a JavaScript framework for writing native rendering apps for iOS and Android. 📚 Enroll NOW for "The Full-stack Mobile Developer" and save 30% https://academy.notjust.dev/ Today we are gonna speak about one of the fastest-growing technologies in the mobile development industry, which is, of course, React Native. If you are a new in mobile development or already experienced and want to get into React Native, watch this video till the end and you will learn more about the technology, how safe is it to use in production environments, and whether you should start learning it in 2020. Let's connect: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vadimsavin IG: https://www.instagram.com/vadimsavin0 Twitter: https://twitter.com/SavinVadim_ TikTok: @vadimsavin0 React Native is a JavaScript framework for writing real, natively rendering mobile applications for iOS and Android. It’s based on React, Facebook’s JavaScript library for building user interfaces, but instead of targeting the browser, it targets mobile platforms. In other words: web developers can now write mobile applications that look and feel truly “native,” all from the comfort of a JavaScript library that we already know and love. Plus, because most of the code you write can be shared between platforms, React Native makes it easy to simultaneously develop for both Android and iOS. A clear advantage of using React Native is it can help you build a native application without having to understand things like Objective-C, JavaScript, Kotlin or Swift. Apps can be developed for platforms such as iOS and Android that I already mentioned, and also for Windows Phone, Virtual Reality headsets and helmets, and tvOS. Similar to React for the Web, React Native applications are written using a mixture of JavaScript and JSX. Then, under the hood, the React Native “bridge” invokes the native rendering APIs in Objective-C and SWIFT (for iOS) or Java (for Android). Thus, your application will render using real mobile UI components, not webviews, and will look and feel like any other mobile application. React Native also exposes JavaScript interfaces for platform APIs, so your React Native apps can access platform features like the phone camera, or the user’s location. Advantages of React Native The fact that React Native actually renders using its host platform’s standard rendering APIs enables it to stand out from most existing methods of cross-platform application development, like Cordova or Ionic. Existing methods of writing mobile applications using combinations of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS typically render using webviews. While this approach can work, it also comes with drawbacks, especially around performance. Additionally, they do not usually have access to the host platform’s set of native UI elements. When these frameworks do try to mimic native UI elements, the results usually “feel” just a little off; reverse-engineering all the fine details of things like animations takes an enormous amount of effort, and they can quickly become out of date. In contrast, React Native actually translates your markup to real, native UI elements, leveraging existing means of rendering views on whatever platform you are working with. Additionally, React works separately from the main UI thread, so your application can maintain high performance without sacrificing capability. For the business and product owners, it represents an interesting opportunity how to unify the development teams, improve their velocity, and lower the costs. In the beginning, we saw React Native to be used mainly by startups to build their MVPs or easy one-screen apps. However, as time passes by we can see more and more mature and robust apps using React Native. Here are some of the top apps developed in React native: Bloomberg, Coinbase Pro, Discord, Instagram, Pinterest, Salesforce, Tesla, Uber Eats So, as we can see React Native is an exciting framework that enables web developers to create robust mobile applications using their existing JavaScript knowledge. It offers faster mobile development, and more efficient code sharing across iOS, Android, and the Web, without sacrificing the end user’s experience or application quality. #reactnative #javascript #tutorial