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The context of this entire thread was about mobile ecosystem. The concept of "cross platform" only holds when you're comparing two similar ones

• chii 10y ago
  the whole premise (that i m sold on react-native) is that it lets you use code from your react app and run it natively. And the concept of cross-platform is not only for "similar" platforms like mobile, but across disparate platforms, like mobile AND PC. Otherwise, what's the point of cross-platform?
  • cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
    As I said, that's not what people mean when they talk about "cross platform" in this context. Go to phonegap and see if they support PC. Cross platform means you should write once and it works everywhere without modifying anything, just like the web. But you can't be cross platform AND native on completely different types of platforms, since each has its own distinct feature sets. You are free to believe whatever you want but that doesn't really mean anything since you're basically arguing about something that I'm not even talking about.
    • tracker1 10y ago
      And that means that ReactNative is better than phonegap! ;-) I'm not completely sold on ReactNative compared to Phonegap and Electron as targets with React web... however, I can indeed see the appeal.