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React Native vs. NativeScript

6 points by jamesmp98 10y ago

Hey everyone. With the rise of JavaScript on mobile, I am starting this discussion to compare the two biggest native JavaScript mobile frameworks: React Native and NativeScript. Both are relatively young, but growing fast. To me, React Native seems to have a bigger community and tends to be more mainstream (many products are adding official RN support), but {N} has some awesome features like 100% native API access via JS. So what does the JavaScript community think? Where do you think React Native and {N} are headed and what made you choose one over the other? Let's see if I can get some interesting content from both sides!

omnimus 10y ago
Very personal newbie experience. I got much further with react native. You can find so much stuff for RN that you can do a lot just with javascript. I wasnt so sure about that wit Nativescript.
Egoscio 10y ago
I don't have hands-on experience with either of these mobile frameworks, however, a simple glance at statistics reveals the internet's interest in RN: https://g.co/trends/K49z5 https://g.co/trends/K49z5 . Not to mention the fact that Discord, Facebook, Instagram, and Airbnb all run RN, while Native script has a generally unknown/inconsiderable backing (imo).
rizkisunaryo 10y ago
I use React Native, but never use {N} Some benefit of React Native to me: - rapid development, I don't need to rebuild every time - easy to build UI, compared to Native Android - big community, many ready-to-use plugins - it has a feature to connect to each natives (iOS and Android). This is very good when third party (e.g.: Cloudinary ) doesn't provide docs / SDK for React Native - with JS, it's easy to manipulate JSON
- molorota 10y ago
  Do you think the using of React as another big benefit ( since it is the cool kids framework right now ). Or this brings another challenge instead? In addition to it, what are your's web stack of choice currently? ( I'm looking for new ideas for back end also )
invalidname 10y ago
Isn't anyone concerned by Facebook? Yes I know it's open source but after the whole Parse fiasco I swore I'd never go near a Facebook API again. As a side note NativeScript doesn't look very interesting to me either as I use Codename One (prefer Java to JavaScript).
berkaybeyaz 10y ago
I tested nativescript example app on iphone, in my opinion nativscript performance better than react native but it just little bit. I guess they don't have big community and details documentation.

6 points by jamesmp98 10y ago

omnimus 10y ago

Very personal newbie experience. I got much further with react native. You can find so much stuff for RN that you can do a lot just with javascript. I wasnt so sure about that wit Nativescript.

Egoscio 10y ago

I don't have hands-on experience with either of these mobile frameworks, however, a simple glance at statistics reveals the internet's interest in RN: https://g.co/trends/K49z5 https://g.co/trends/K49z5 . Not to mention the fact that Discord, Facebook, Instagram, and Airbnb all run RN, while Native script has a generally unknown/inconsiderable backing (imo).

rizkisunaryo 10y ago

I use React Native, but never use {N} Some benefit of React Native to me: - rapid development, I don't need to rebuild every time - easy to build UI, compared to Native Android - big community, many ready-to-use plugins - it has a feature to connect to each natives (iOS and Android). This is very good when third party (e.g.: Cloudinary ) doesn't provide docs / SDK for React Native - with JS, it's easy to manipulate JSON

molorota 10y ago
Do you think the using of React as another big benefit ( since it is the cool kids framework right now ). Or this brings another challenge instead? In addition to it, what are your's web stack of choice currently? ( I'm looking for new ideas for back end also )

invalidname 10y ago

Isn't anyone concerned by Facebook? Yes I know it's open source but after the whole Parse fiasco I swore I'd never go near a Facebook API again. As a side note NativeScript doesn't look very interesting to me either as I use Codename One (prefer Java to JavaScript).

berkaybeyaz 10y ago

I tested nativescript example app on iphone, in my opinion nativscript performance better than react native but it just little bit. I guess they don't have big community and details documentation.