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Bootstrapping your React Native App

Kashish Grover on April 22, 2018

Well, hello there. This is my first post here at Dev.to, and I am excited to be a part of your community. 😇 I have been playing around with Reac...
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Andrew Emerson

Nice post and a good React Native primer. I work as a native Android/iOS engineer and will be taking the leap with my colleagues into RN in the near future.

Do you have any feedback on the "native feel" of apps built in RN? Any limitations where you would be better off using the native platform directly?

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Kashish Grover

Thank you so much for appreciating. Regarding the native feel, React Native does it good justice. A lot of companies who have started using it heavily did not shift the whole product in one go, but they did it feature by feature, screen by screen.

On that note, if you ever feel like you need to go native for something which might need some performance heavy lifting, you can always make your own APIs to suit those needs. :)

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Alfonso

Thx for sharing your experience, this is amazing guide to get started ! =)

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Kashish Grover

Thank you 😊

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Guido Vizoso

There are a lot of Native tutorials but their focus on architecture and organization is very little. Thanks for this amazing guide!

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Kashish Grover • Edited

Thank you so much. That just made my day. ❤️

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Saad

Nice post man!

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Kashish Grover

Thank you. Glad you liked it. 🙂