Flutter for React Developers

Hello there 👋 fellow developers and students who might have started your development journey or also in their peak stages bootstrapping a whole #startup by themselves 😂

Hear me out ! 📢 Recently in Humblx we stumbled upon a scaling problem for our PWA application to solve offline first appproch for file and image uploads and thankfully me whos well experienced in developing flutter applications made a companion app using the same backend and leveraging platform features stackup a lot of features and solved s whole another set of problems including offline sync problems. 🚀

Well that’s my kutty story 🧑‍💻 Now let’s start with the tech part, Shall we 😎

Flutter 🐦 is basically a widget based UI framework much similar to react, it is also based on the reactive pattern hence you would see a lot of similarities here.

React ⇒ coded in JS ⇒ Renders as HTML

Futter ⇒ coded in dart ⇒ Renders as Skia Canvas code which is presented in native platform container

But we have React Native, Cordova, Ionic right why flutter then ? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Simple let’s gather the points,

✨ Out of the box Native like UI components

👌 Backed by Google, Consistent updates and bug fixes also Open-sourced and Community cared

🦋 Huge growing and supportive community

💨 JVM based dart language provides you a huge performance boost

If you are react developer or a student learning react

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Or a flutter developer

Here a few similarities that might encourage you to learn react or flutter

🔄 Component-Based Structure: React and Flutter utilize components for modular UI development.

🎨 Declarative UI: Both emphasize efficient UI updates based on changes.

🔥 Hot Reload: Instant code changes without losing app state during development.

👥 Community Support: Active communities offer resources for developers.

🔓 Open Source: Both are open-source frameworks.

📱 Cross-Platform: Single codebase for iOS and Android.

⚡️ Performance: Prioritize app speed and efficiency.

📚 Learning Curve: Relatively easy to learn, with similar principles aiding in transition.

Embrace the similarities between Flutter and React and elevate your skills by learning both! 🚀 Stay versatile and expand your opportunities in app development! 💡