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I've been considering trying out Flutter, but mainly due to my frustrations with React Native and I'm not entirely sure if others have had similar experiences o

by jrs95 7y ago

I've been considering trying out Flutter, but mainly due to my frustrations with React Native and I'm not entirely sure if others have had similar experiences or if Flutter would be any better. I have all kinds of issues with React Native tooling stability: code randomly reverts back to previous versions with hot reloading, things only partially update when I make changes, the same styles sometimes have inconsistent behavior, Flex doesn't always work the way that it should (justify-content is sometimes simply ignored for example) and things that should look the same on iOS and Android sometimes don't. So I guess my questions to those reading this are: 1. Have you had similar experiences using React Native? 2. Have you had these kinds of problems using Flutter as well? I'm seriously considering rebuilding a prototype we have at work in Flutter in my spare time but I'd hate for it to be a similar situation to React Native where it appears to save me time at first and then fucks me over and only makes everything take more effort to get right.

dickjocke 7y ago
Please, please try Flutter. I had literally the same issues with React Native and gave Flutter a test run late last year. I will never go back. Flutter is so stable and honestly my frustrations with Flex made consider giving up on mobile development. I think as a backend dev i really struggle with the layout aspects of mobile dev and flutter makes it so easy for me. I'd say spend two nights playing with flutter. It took me that long to feel comfortable with Flutter's version of Components and state, but now it's a breeze. Hot reloading works great, it's easy to plug in native code if you need it, it's just amazing. I haven't been this excited about a language in years.
- jrs95 7y ago
  Exactly what I was hoping to hear, I'll get started with it this weekend :)
  - dickjocke 7y ago
    Did you do it?
- verttii 7y ago
  My experience is similar with yours. With React Native I had to fight just about everything on Android just to get everything working bearably. Hell, even some things like the profiler didn't work in Android when I was writing RN. For now I'll stick to Flutter, it has simply awesome tooling. Everything just works. Dart, while not my favorite language, is also no more difficult than typescript to grasp, and they're inherently similar.

by jrs95 7y ago

dickjocke 7y ago

Please, please try Flutter. I had literally the same issues with React Native and gave Flutter a test run late last year. I will never go back. Flutter is so stable and honestly my frustrations with Flex made consider giving up on mobile development. I think as a backend dev i really struggle with the layout aspects of mobile dev and flutter makes it so easy for me. I'd say spend two nights playing with flutter. It took me that long to feel comfortable with Flutter's version of Components and state, but now it's a breeze. Hot reloading works great, it's easy to plug in native code if you need it, it's just amazing. I haven't been this excited about a language in years.

jrs95 7y ago
Exactly what I was hoping to hear, I'll get started with it this weekend :)
- dickjocke 7y ago
  Did you do it?
verttii 7y ago
My experience is similar with yours. With React Native I had to fight just about everything on Android just to get everything working bearably. Hell, even some things like the profiler didn't work in Android when I was writing RN. For now I'll stick to Flutter, it has simply awesome tooling. Everything just works. Dart, while not my favorite language, is also no more difficult than typescript to grasp, and they're inherently similar.