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Imo React Native is still the best cross platform solution atm. Flutter might be a good option, but personally I don't think it's there (yet), and I have my re

Imo React Native is still the best cross platform solution atm. Flutter might be a good option, but personally I don't think it's there (yet), and I have my reservations about a few fundamental choices. I'm not super familiar with Ionic, but afaik it's more of the Hybrid approach, web on native. It serves its use cases, but comes with its own set of challenges. It might be an option for you. One option you didn't mention is Xamarin. I'm not familiar with it, but if .net is your jam it might be an option. I would go with React Native. It uses native widgets, is reasonably fast (fast enough for most apps), it's flexible, and very productive. You might even be able to use ClojureScript, a quick google search suggests it has been done before, for example see https://cljsrn.org/ https://cljsrn.org/. I have used ReScript before with React Native, it complicates some things, but worked surprisingly well. That's one of the advantages of React Native being JS, you can still use the compile-to languages. React Native isn't very complex imo, especially not for a simple app. If you use something like Expo it's really easy to get going and very quickly build very decent apps. Updating packages can sometimes be a challenge, but even that has gotten a lot better, and this is not exclusive to RN. React Native also has a very good web story, so you could serve all platforms. See https://necolas.github.io/react-native-web/ https://necolas.github.io/react-native-web/ it's used by some massive companies and platforms.

tut-urut-utut 4y ago
Thanks for the answer. Yes, React Native works well with Clojurescript. https://github.com/flexsurfer/rn-shadow-steroid https://github.com/flexsurfer/rn-shadow-steroid offers seamless development environment. However, there I'm more concerned about React Native Web, which somehow feels heavy compared to pure web approach. You are right, Ionic is a hybrid approach, but it feels at home both as web and mobile. It has also nice Clojurescript story https://marko.euptera.com/posts/ionic-clojure-todo-example.html https://marko.euptera.com/posts/ionic-clojure-todo-example.h... I'm still not sure which I will choose. For my application, I don't need much of the native functionality, at least not in the first phase. Webview wrapped in an application will do. The only thing I require from mobile feature is to be in the app store.
- codeptualize 4y ago
  Could you elaborate on what you mean by "heavy"? React Native Web produces a pretty normal React app, it's not that different from what Ionic puts out. But if hybrid performance is sufficient for you, both will probably be fine. I would say; pick one and start building! You could even try out both. That will give you much more insight than trying to reason about it.

tut-urut-utut 4y ago

Thanks for the answer. Yes, React Native works well with Clojurescript. https://github.com/flexsurfer/rn-shadow-steroid https://github.com/flexsurfer/rn-shadow-steroid offers seamless development environment. However, there I'm more concerned about React Native Web, which somehow feels heavy compared to pure web approach. You are right, Ionic is a hybrid approach, but it feels at home both as web and mobile. It has also nice Clojurescript story https://marko.euptera.com/posts/ionic-clojure-todo-example.html https://marko.euptera.com/posts/ionic-clojure-todo-example.h... I'm still not sure which I will choose. For my application, I don't need much of the native functionality, at least not in the first phase. Webview wrapped in an application will do. The only thing I require from mobile feature is to be in the app store.

codeptualize 4y ago
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "heavy"? React Native Web produces a pretty normal React app, it's not that different from what Ionic puts out. But if hybrid performance is sufficient for you, both will probably be fine. I would say; pick one and start building! You could even try out both. That will give you much more insight than trying to reason about it.