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NativeScript V/s React Native: What To Choose For Cross-Platform App Development

Ronak Patel on April 13, 2019

When it comes to building hybrid apps for mobiles, you can find several frameworks available in the market. With such frameworks, you can write t...
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Jason Land

I was hoping for some hard numbers in the comparison. You say React Native wins out with speed and file size, but by how much? Enough to be worth switching? You say the speed is slow because there's no V-DOM in Nativecsript, but fail to mention that there's a Vue implementation which is on par or better that React file size and performance.

You also pretend large companies aren't using Nativescript by comparing huge Silicon Valley companies using React Native to a bunch of apps no one has heard of using Nativescript. Except that Samsung, Target, Qualcomm, Volvo, and other large non-SV companies have deployed it.

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Sujit Kumar Singh

This article is a good try but not well researched(just based on other online articles), probably biased and far away from reality.
Both NativeScript and ReactNative are equally comparable to both feature and performance wise. But, the prior one supports Angular(2+) and VueJS, while the later only ReactJS.
V-DOM is fast? Arguably with definite memory and process overheads. Ever heard of Incremental DOM?

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Jason Land

so their decisions are somewhat more indicative of the frameworks' advantages than those of the other big firms you named

I'm not so sure. In Facebook's case, I think it's because they invented React. Likely the same with Google and Angular.

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Jone Polvora

it looks like a little biased for react.