Good article. The thing that keeps me from going all in with React Native, or really any other JavaScript application is the setup.
Set this congig file up, set this json file up, run this command. Make sure you have this set. But If use a totally different set of tech those configs and json files are totally different.
Example: I tried to get started learning react native on my windows machine. I have done plenty of mobile work before. Native Android, Xamarin, and even Flutter. In all 3 ways I was up and going pretty quickly. No issues. React Native on Windows? I have followed documentation from Facebook on Windows (horrible, and there are plenty of articles online about that) plus other articles on setting it up. Spent 8 hours on it to finally get a hello world app going on Android using Windows. It kept complaining that Android was not installed, yet Android Studio, Xamarin, Flutter, had zero issues finding the default installation directory. It also didn't seem to like the latest version of the JDK I had installed.
Honestly setup is a very important feature for a piece of tech or language. If it's frustrating I don't want to fight with it. I want to develop and solve actual programming issues.
Next time I try React Native out again, hopefully it won't take me 8 hours to get it setup and running and I can actually roll my sleeves up and spend time learning it. Until then I think I'll stick with Xamarin for my enterprise level apps and Flutter for experimenting.
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Good article. The thing that keeps me from going all in with React Native, or really any other JavaScript application is the setup.
Set this congig file up, set this json file up, run this command. Make sure you have this set. But If use a totally different set of tech those configs and json files are totally different.
Example: I tried to get started learning react native on my windows machine. I have done plenty of mobile work before. Native Android, Xamarin, and even Flutter. In all 3 ways I was up and going pretty quickly. No issues. React Native on Windows? I have followed documentation from Facebook on Windows (horrible, and there are plenty of articles online about that) plus other articles on setting it up. Spent 8 hours on it to finally get a hello world app going on Android using Windows. It kept complaining that Android was not installed, yet Android Studio, Xamarin, Flutter, had zero issues finding the default installation directory. It also didn't seem to like the latest version of the JDK I had installed.
Honestly setup is a very important feature for a piece of tech or language. If it's frustrating I don't want to fight with it. I want to develop and solve actual programming issues.
Next time I try React Native out again, hopefully it won't take me 8 hours to get it setup and running and I can actually roll my sleeves up and spend time learning it. Until then I think I'll stick with Xamarin for my enterprise level apps and Flutter for experimenting.