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React Native development

Cross-platform mobile from a single TypeScript codebase.

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The honest assessment

What it is
Cross-platform mobile from a single TypeScript codebase.
Strongest at
shared code with your web application and one team for both platforms
Trade-off
heavy native functionality still needs platform-specific work
Category
framework
Vendor
Open source

We hold no reseller commission on React Native. That is what makes the trade-off line above worth reading. It costs us nothing to tell you when this is the wrong choice.

Building with React Native

React Native is strongest at shared code with your web application and one team for both platforms. We reach for it when that is the property a workload actually depends on, and we say so when it is not.

The strongest argument for React Native is shared code and a shared team. A company already running a TypeScript web application can extend into mobile without hiring two additional platform specialists, which changes the economics of shipping an app at all.

Where it strains is deep hardware work, custom camera pipelines, background processing, complex Bluetooth. Those need native modules, and at that point the cross-platform saving narrows considerably.

Integration comes before intelligence. A model that cannot reach your systems of record is a demo with good manners. Six weeks to something running in production, not six quarters to a strategy document.

Questions

What is React Native best at?

Shared code with your web application and one team for both platforms.

When would you not use React Native?

Heavy native functionality still needs platform-specific work. We would look at Vercel AI SDK or LangGraph in that situation.

Do you have a commercial relationship with React Native?

No. We hold no reseller commission on any technology we recommend, which is what lets the trade-off above be stated plainly.

Can you work with our existing React Native setup?

Yes. We would rather extend and stabilise something that already works than introduce a parallel system your team has to learn.

Working with React Native?

Tell us the workload and we will tell you whether this is the right tool for it.

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