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Discussion on: "Flutter is better than React Native". Thoughts?

 
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Aadityasiva

A web app with flutter is not equivalent to one made with JS. The flutter team themself say

Not every HTML scenario is ideally suited for Flutter at this time. For example, text-rich, flow-based, static content such as blog articles benefit from the document-centric model that the web is built around, rather than the app-centric services that a UI framework like Flutter can deliver. However, you can use Flutter to embed interactive experiences into these websites.

But if you expect most of your users to use the mobile app made with flutter then flutter for web is not a bad choice

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Shai Almog

Sometimes a web app is just a mobile app placed in the web. This way it can circumvent store restrictions etc. If that's what you want then flutter web will work for you.

Sometimes the web app is something a bit different. It might include some of the functionality of the mobile app but it might also be your marketing website. In this case flutter sucks. SEO and related tooling just won't work with flutter. Maintenance would be painful since the web site and the app would have differences and different paces of update.

You won't be able to reuse all the amazing tools available for doing stuff on the web. It isn't a website, it's an app that runs on the web.