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>If you are building a b2b SAAS app I would probably reach for something like Ionic/Capacitor. You can share almost all you codebase with your web/PWA/desktop (

>If you are building a b2b SAAS app I would probably reach for something like Ionic/Capacitor. You can share almost all you codebase with your web/PWA/desktop (electron) apps and can achieve it all with a tiny team. If you need a little more native functionality then adding in NativeScript to a Capacitor works very well. Honestly nowadays with Expo I would never suggest doing a hybrid app anymore unless you have a large existing JS codebase you want to leverage. Expo makes React Native development so ridiculously simple from the point of scaffolding your app all the way through the app store submission process that there's really no productivity loss anymore vs. doing an Ionic app. The tooling has come so far in the last 10 years that you can just easily develop a native iOS app in Javascript like it's a web app now.

zjyeung 5y ago
> The tooling has come so far in the last 10 years that you can just easily develop a native iOS app in Javascript like it's a web app now. Agreed. I would even say in these past 3 years or so, React Native development has smoothed itself out. The experience of setting up an app and being productive in it coming in as a web developer is phenomenal. One thing is that the community support is still small compared to native or even React itself. Peformance too is lacking. I've been waiting for the new architecture Fabric to come in replacing JSC with JSI but it's taking quite a long time. There still isn't a clear estimate on it's release yet.