{"id":625,"date":"2022-03-07T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technoyuga.com\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2023-09-27T15:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T15:53:03","slug":"react-native-vs-flutter-which-is-best-for-your-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technoyuga.com\/blog\/react-native-vs-flutter-which-is-best-for-your-app\/","title":{"rendered":"React Native vs Flutter: Which is Best for Your App?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

When any startup has queries regarding app development technology or framework they should use, I suggest them to use Cross-Platform Apps as they can give a very fast MVP(minimum viable product) and are cost-effective as well. You as a reader may have a questioning mind and might be unaware of the term Cross-Platform App<\/strong>. So, Cross-Platform Apps are those apps that have a single code base for Android, iOS & web most of the time, This method saves a lot of effort in terms of time and money and only one developer can work on the whole project, in this way the later growth and upgrade is also pretty much sustainable. Now there are several frameworks that can be used for\u00a0mobile app development<\/a>, these apps but the most trending ones are Flutter and React Native. So let me compare both of them as it is the title and aim of the blog so that you can get an idea about what framework to choose when you are going to develop your next cross-platform app either for your college project or for a big cap client. Just to let you know, Yes these two frameworks are efficient enough for useful projects and are not just limited to dummy toy-like projects.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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<\/span>What is React Native?<\/span><\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

React Native<\/a>\u00a0is the small brother of React JS and is managed by the great Facebook that is now going to be known as Meta. React Native just like its big brother is a JavaScript-based framework that you can use to build efficient and quality apps. Your code for one platform and then can build the application for the other platform that is the web, iOS \/android.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

<\/span>How to Setting Up the Development Environment?<\/span><\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Just go to the official site and you would get the installation guide step by step. Trust me, the official site is informative enough to guide you and you won\u2019t need help from any of the youtube guides.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But when you would be installing then you would come across a dilemma while choosing the CLI. React Native has two CLI options one is\u00a0EXPO CLI<\/strong>\u00a0and the other is\u00a0React Native CLI<\/strong>. I am going to help you in this dilemma as a torchbearer and would explain the pros and cons of each CLI but I am not going to comment on which one is the best. The choice is going to be yours as per the need of the hour.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Expo CLI<\/strong>\u00a0is a developer tool that provides you with an interface between developer and expo tools. Yeah I know this definition is quite bookish, let me write in a simpler form. Basically, Expo gives you some tools that help you in developing apps in an easier way. Expo CLI provides you with an app called Expo Go that previously came as Expo Client that opened the app you were developing, directly on your phone without building the apk. So if you wanted to check the look of the app on an iOS phone, just open the app through Expo Go on your iOS Phone, and boom, you get the view. Similarly, you could do with the android app as well. The plus point of using Expo CLI is that it provides you with some of the pre-built libraries that are usually required in the app and you had to code it yourself if you did not use Expo CLI.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

React Native CLI<\/strong>\u00a0provides you with the plain react-native projects for you with separate native projects for iOS and Android platforms. You can modify the native projects as you want to write native code for each platform. Here everything is in your hand.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

If CLI was about clothing then Expo CLI would be a box with a big sheet of cloth, with a guidebook and some ornaments. You would stich and make the dress using the guide and could decorate the dress with the ornaments in the box. While React Native CLI gives you only the sheet of cloth that you can stich to make the dress.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It might be a bad example but yeah, this is what comes to my mind while I am writing this piece of blog. One more example I could give here is of a canvas; React Native CLI gives a blank canvas to make your art on, but what does Expo CLI give in terms of canvas? I don\u2019t know. You can tell me in the comment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So once you can decide what CLI to use then you are good to go with the system set up for the development.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

<\/span>Pros of React Native:<\/span><\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n