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Having used both RN and Flutter quite a bit I also much prefer Flutter, despite being a big fan of Typescript and React for the web. Flutter just feels like a

Having used both RN and Flutter quite a bit I also much prefer Flutter, despite being a big fan of Typescript and React for the web. Flutter just feels like a much more polished and stable platform built explicitly for purpose and I've never had any performance issues.

tcoff91 2y ago
Flutter on the web is an absolute JOKE though. React native web & react-strict-dom seem far superior. The moment you want to support web as well, react-native blows flutter away. Also how's the accessibility on Flutter? I'm pretty skeptical that it's going to have decent accessibility given the game-engine style rendering.
- cageface 2y ago
  I agree I would not choose Flutter if web is a primary platform for what you're doing.
- mdhb 2y ago
  This has actually changed a lot recently since everything now compiles down to WASM along with a bunch of other improvements. Flutter web absolutely makes sense all of a sudden in a bunch of contexts. That is all too before they have even touched bringing WebGPU in so I think in a medium term scenario it will be an extremely safe bet. Just by way of example Google Earth just did a major rewrite to put Flutter at the heart of their UI precisely because it was a better experience including on web so I offer that anecdote to suggest your info is kind of out of date.
  - tcoff91 2y ago
    In the end though, it's still rendering to a canvas. Flutter is basically the new flash. If you are in a business segment where lacking best-in-class accessibility could lead to huge ADA lawsuits, I'd steer clear of anything that isn't rendering real DOM elements. Google Earth is almost like a video game so flutter makes perfect sense for that. If you're building a fintech CRUD app flutter makes absolutely no sense on the web. With react native web you can share your code with next.js in a monorepo and absolutely blow flutter away in terms of page weight and time to first interaction.

tcoff91 2y ago

Flutter on the web is an absolute JOKE though. React native web & react-strict-dom seem far superior. The moment you want to support web as well, react-native blows flutter away. Also how's the accessibility on Flutter? I'm pretty skeptical that it's going to have decent accessibility given the game-engine style rendering.

cageface 2y ago
I agree I would not choose Flutter if web is a primary platform for what you're doing.
mdhb 2y ago
This has actually changed a lot recently since everything now compiles down to WASM along with a bunch of other improvements. Flutter web absolutely makes sense all of a sudden in a bunch of contexts. That is all too before they have even touched bringing WebGPU in so I think in a medium term scenario it will be an extremely safe bet. Just by way of example Google Earth just did a major rewrite to put Flutter at the heart of their UI precisely because it was a better experience including on web so I offer that anecdote to suggest your info is kind of out of date.
- tcoff91 2y ago
  In the end though, it's still rendering to a canvas. Flutter is basically the new flash. If you are in a business segment where lacking best-in-class accessibility could lead to huge ADA lawsuits, I'd steer clear of anything that isn't rendering real DOM elements. Google Earth is almost like a video game so flutter makes perfect sense for that. If you're building a fintech CRUD app flutter makes absolutely no sense on the web. With react native web you can share your code with next.js in a monorepo and absolutely blow flutter away in terms of page weight and time to first interaction.