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React Native, Xamarin, Android SDK, Java, and Kotlin are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Flutter.
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What is Flutter and what are its top alternatives?

Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google, which allows developers to build natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Its key features include hot reload, customizable widgets, and a rich set of pre-built UI components. However, some limitations of Flutter include larger app sizes compared to native applications and possible performance issues with complex animations.

  1. React Native: React Native is a popular JavaScript framework for building cross-platform mobile applications. Key features include a large community, reusable components, and easy integration with third-party libraries. Pros of React Native include strong developer support and a vast ecosystem, while cons may include performance issues on certain platforms.
  2. Xamarin: Xamarin is a Microsoft-owned framework for building cross-platform mobile applications using C#. Key features include code reusability, native performance, and integration with Microsoft technologies. Pros of Xamarin include strong support for enterprise applications and seamless access to device APIs, while cons may include a steeper learning curve for beginners.
  3. Ionic: Ionic is an open-source framework for building cross-platform mobile applications using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Key features include a vast library of pre-built components, easy prototyping, and support for popular front-end frameworks. Pros of Ionic include rapid development and a strong community, while cons may include limitations in terms of app performance.
  4. NativeScript: NativeScript is an open-source framework for building cross-platform mobile applications using JavaScript or TypeScript. Key features include direct access to native APIs, support for Angular, Vue.js, or React, and a rich plugin ecosystem. Pros of NativeScript include high performance and native user experience, while cons may include a smaller community compared to other frameworks.
  5. Unity: Unity is a popular game development platform that can also be used to build interactive 3D applications for mobile, web, and desktop. Key features include high fidelity graphics, cross-platform support, and a large asset store for ready-made assets. Pros of Unity include powerful graphics capabilities and a strong focus on gaming, while cons may include a steeper learning curve for non-gaming applications.
  6. Appcelerator Titanium: Appcelerator Titanium is a mobile app development platform that allows developers to build cross-platform applications using JavaScript, XML, and Alloy. Key features include code reusability, rapid prototyping, and a large number of modules for extending functionality. Pros of Appcelerator Titanium include fast development cycles and easy access to device features, while cons may include limited platform support compared to other frameworks.
  7. PhoneGap: PhoneGap, now known as Apache Cordova, is an open-source framework for building cross-platform mobile applications using web technologies. Key features include easy integration with existing web technologies, access to native APIs, and a large community of developers. Pros of PhoneGap include seamless integration with web assets and rapid deployment, while cons may include performance issues on certain platforms.
  8. Corona SDK: Corona SDK is a mobile app development platform focused on 2D games and interactive applications. Key features include high-performance graphics, easy-to-use API, and support for Lua scripting. Pros of Corona SDK include fast development cycles and a strong focus on gaming applications, while cons may include limitations in terms of complex UI and 3D graphics.
  9. Flutterflow: Flutterflow is a visual UI builder for Flutter applications that allows developers to design and prototype apps without writing code. Key features include drag-and-drop interface design, real-time preview, and seamless integration with Flutter code. Pros of Flutterflow include rapid prototyping and easy collaboration between designers and developers, while cons may include limitations in customizability compared to hand-written code.
  10. Quark: Quark is a low-code platform for building cross-platform applications using a visual interface and JavaScript. Key features include a drag-and-drop builder, support for native APIs, and seamless deployment to multiple platforms. Pros of Quark include rapid development cycles and easy integration with existing JavaScript libraries, while cons may include limitations in terms of customization and flexibility compared to hand-written code.

Top Alternatives to Flutter

  • React Native
    React Native

    React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native. ...

  • Xamarin
    Xamarin

    Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. ...

  • Android SDK
    Android SDK

    Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment. ...

  • Java
    Java

    Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere! ...

  • Kotlin
    Kotlin

    Kotlin is a statically typed programming language for the JVM, Android and the browser, 100% interoperable with Java ...

  • React
    React

    Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project. ...

  • Swift
    Swift

    Writing code is interactive and fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive, and apps run lightning-fast. Swift is ready for your next iOS and OS X project — or for addition into your current app — because Swift code works side-by-side with Objective-C. ...

  • Ionic
    Ionic

    Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript. ...

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    No compile
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    Awesome
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    Everything component
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    Win win solution of hybrid app
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    Not dependent on anything such as Angular
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    Simple
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    Awesome, easy starting from scratch
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    OTA update
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    As good as Native without any performance concerns
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    Easy to use
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    Many salary
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    Can be incrementally added to existing native apps
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    Hot reload
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    Over the air update (Flutter lacks)
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    'It's just react'
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    Generate large apk even for a simple app
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    Some compenents not truly native

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Collins Ogbuzuru
Front-end dev at Evolve credit · | 38 upvotes · 261K views

Your tech stack is solid for building a real-time messaging project.

React and React Native are excellent choices for the frontend, especially if you want to have both web and mobile versions of your application share code.

ExpressJS is an unopinionated framework that affords you the flexibility to use it's features at your term, which is a good start. However, I would recommend you explore Sails.js as well. Sails.js is built on top of Express.js and it provides additional features out of the box, especially the Websocket integration that your project requires.

Don't forget to set up Graphql codegen, this would improve your dev experience (Add Typescript, if you can too).

I don't know much about databases but you might want to consider using NO-SQL. I used Firebase real-time db and aws dynamo db on a few of my personal projects and I love they're easy to work with and offer more flexibility for a chat application.

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Vaibhav Taunk
Team Lead at Technovert · | 31 upvotes · 4.2M views

I am starting to become a full-stack developer, by choosing and learning .NET Core for API Development, Angular CLI / React for UI Development, MongoDB for database, as it a NoSQL DB and Flutter / React Native for Mobile App Development. Using Postman, Markdown and Visual Studio Code for development.

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Greg Neumann
Indie, Solo, Developer · | 8 upvotes · 1.6M views

Finding the most effective dev stack for a solo developer. Over the past year, I've been looking at many tech stacks that would be 'best' for me, as a solo, indie, developer to deliver a desktop app (Windows & Mac) plus mobile - iOS mainly. Initially, Xamarin started to stand-out. Using .NET Core as the run-time, Xamarin as the native API provider and Xamarin Forms for the UI seemed to solve all issues. But, the cracks soon started to appear. Xamarin Forms is mobile only; the Windows incarnation is different. There is no Mac UI solution (you have to code it natively in Mac OS Storyboard. I was also worried how Xamarin Forms , if I was to use it, was going to cope, in future, with Apple's new SwiftUI and Google's new Fuchsia.

This plethora of techs for the UI-layer made me reach for the safer waters of using Web-techs for the UI. Lovely! Consistency everywhere (well, mostly). But that consistency evaporates when platform issues are addressed. There are so many web frameworks!

But, I made a simple decision. It's just me...I am clever, but there is no army of coders here. And I have big plans for a business app. How could just 1 developer go-on to deploy a decent app to Windows, iPhone, iPad & Mac OS? I remembered earlier days when I've used Microsoft's ASP.NET to scaffold - generate - loads of Code for a web-app that I needed for several charities that I worked with. What 'generators' exist that do a lot of the platform-specific rubbish, allow the necessary customisation of such platform integration and provide a decent UI?

I've placed my colours to the Quasar Framework mast. Oh dear, that means Electron desktop apps doesn't it? Well, Ive had enough of loads of Developers saying that "the menus won't look native" or "it uses too much RAM" and so on. I've been using non-native UI-wrapped apps for ages - the date picker in Outlook on iOS is way better than the native date-picker and I'd been using it for years without getting hot under the collar about it. Developers do get so hung-up on things that busy Users hardly notice; don't you think?. As to the RAM usage issue; that's a bit true. But Users only really notice when an app uses so much RAM that the machine starts to page-out. Electron contributes towards that horizon but does not cause it. My Users will be business-users after all. Somewhat decent machines.

Looking forward to all that lovely Vue.js around my TypeScript and all those really, really, b e a u t I f u l UI controls of Quasar Framework . Still not sure that 1 dev can deliver all that... but I'm up for trying...

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Bhupendra Madhu
Web Developer at Ecombooks · | 8 upvotes · 711K views

I want to learn cross-platform application frameworks like React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, or Ionic, and I'm a web developer. I can learn other programming languages as well. But I'm confused about what to learn, which framework is best, and which framework will last long as the application grows further into complexity.

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    Jesus Dario Rivera Rubio
    Telecomm Engineering at Netbeast · | 10 upvotes · 1.2M views

    We are using React Native in #SmartHome to share the business logic between Android and iOS team and approach users with a unique brand experience. The drawback is that we require lots of native Android SDK and Objective-C modules, so a good part of the invested time is there. The gain for a app that relies less on native communication, sensors and OS tools should be even higher.

    Also it helps us set different testing stages: we use Travis CI for the javascript (business logic), Bitrise to run build tests and @Detox for #end2end automated user tests.

    We use a microservices structure on top of Zeit's @now that read from firebase. We use JWT auth to authenticate requests among services and from users, following GitHub philosophy of using the same infrastructure than its API consumers. Firebase is used mainly as a key-value store between services and as a backup database for users. We also use its authentication mechanisms.

    You can be super locked-in if you also rely on it's analytics, but we use Amplitude for that, which offers us great insights. Intercom for communications with end-user and Mailjet for marketing.

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    Sezgi Ulucam
    Developer Advocate at Hasura · | 7 upvotes · 960.8K views

    I've recently switched to using Expo for initializing and developing my React Native apps. Compared to React Native CLI, it's so much easier to get set up and going. Setting up and maintaining Android Studio, Android SDK, and virtual devices used to be such a headache. Thanks to Expo, I can now test my apps directly on my Android phone, just by installing the Expo app. I still use Xcode Simulator for iOS testing, since I don't have an iPhone, but that's easy anyway. The big win for me with Expo is ease of Android testing.

    The Expo SDK also provides convenient features like Facebook login, MapView, push notifications, and many others. https://docs.expo.io/versions/v31.0.0/sdk/

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      Huge amount of documentation available
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      Large pool of developers available
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      Open source
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      Excellent performance
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      Great development
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      Used for android
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      Vast array of 3rd party libraries
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      Compiled Language
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      Used for Web
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      Managed memory
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      High Performance
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      Universal platform
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      Great Support
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      Great ecosystem
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      Backward compatible
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      Lots of boilerplate
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      Everywhere
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      Excellent SDK - JDK
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      Cross-platform
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      It's Java
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      Static typing
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      Portability
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      Mature language thus stable systems
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      Better than Ruby
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      Long term language
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      Used for Android development
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      Clojure
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      Best martial for design
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      Most developers favorite
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      History
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      Stable platform, which many new languages depend on
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      Verbosity
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      NullpointerException
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      Nightmare to Write
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      Overcomplexity is praised in community culture
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      Boiler plate code
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      Classpath hell prior to Java 9
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      No REPL
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      No property
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      Code are too long
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      Non-intuitive generic implementation
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      There is not optional parameter
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    Conor Myhrvold
    Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 44 upvotes · 12.6M views

    How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

    Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

    Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

    https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

    (GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

    Bindings/Operator: Python Java Node.js Go C++ Kubernetes JavaScript OpenShift C# Apache Spark

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    Kamil Kowalski
    Lead Architect at Fresha · | 28 upvotes · 4.1M views

    When you think about test automation, it’s crucial to make it everyone’s responsibility (not just QA Engineers'). We started with Selenium and Java, but with our platform revolving around Ruby, Elixir and JavaScript, QA Engineers were left alone to automate tests. Cypress was the answer, as we could switch to JS and simply involve more people from day one. There's a downside too, as it meant testing on Chrome only, but that was "good enough" for us + if really needed we can always cover some specific cases in a different way.

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      Expressive Syntax
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      Type Inference
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      Readable code
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      Powerful as Scala, simple as Python, plus coroutines <3
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      Better Java
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      Expressive DSLs
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      Less boilerplate code
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      Fast Programming language
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      Friendly community
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      Functional Programming Language
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      Latest version of Java
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      Well-compromised featured Java alternative
    CONS OF KOTLIN
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      Java interop makes users write Java in Kotlin
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      Hard to make teams adopt the Kotlin style
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      Friendly community
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    Shivam Bhargava
    AVP - Business at VAYUZ Technologies Pvt. Ltd. · | 22 upvotes · 876.6K views

    Hi Community! Trust everyone is keeping safe. I am exploring the idea of building a #Neobank (App) with end-to-end banking capabilities. In the process of exploring this space, I have come across multiple Apps (N26, Revolut, Monese, etc) and explored their stacks in detail. The confusion remains to be the Backend Tech to be used?

    What would you go with considering all of the languages such as Node.js Java Rails Python are suggested by some person or the other. As a general trend, I have noticed the usage of Node with React on the front or Node with a combination of Kotlin and Swift. Please suggest what would be the right approach!

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    Jakub Olan
    Node.js Software Engineer · | 17 upvotes · 809K views

    In our company we have think a lot about languages that we're willing to use, there we have considering Java, Python and C++ . All of there languages are old and well developed at fact but that's not ideology of araclx. We've choose a edge technologies such as Node.js , Rust , Kotlin and Go as our programming languages which is some kind of fun. Node.js is one of biggest trends of 2019, same for Go. We want to grow in our company with growth of languages we have choose, and probably when we would choose Java that would be almost impossible because larger languages move on today's market slower, and cannot have big changes.

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      Easy to Use
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      Uni-directional data flow
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      Great perfomance
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      Built by Facebook
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      Excellent Documentation
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      Props
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      Functional
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      Easy as Lego
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      Cross-platform
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      Easy to start
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      Hooks
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      Awesome
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      Super easy
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      Allows creating single page applications
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      Server side views
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      Sdfsdfsdf
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      Start simple
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      Strong Community
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      Scales super well
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      Has arrow functions
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      Beautiful and Neat Component Management
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      Just the View of MVC
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      Simple, easy to reason about and makes you productive
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      Fast evolving
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      Great migration pathway for older systems
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      Every decision architecture wise makes sense
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      Very gentle learning curve
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      Split your UI into components with one true state
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      Image upload
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      Permissively-licensed
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    Johnny Bell

    I was building a personal project that I needed to store items in a real time database. I am more comfortable with my Frontend skills than my backend so I didn't want to spend time building out anything in Ruby or Go.

    I stumbled on Firebase by #Google, and it was really all I needed. It had realtime data, an area for storing file uploads and best of all for the amount of data I needed it was free!

    I built out my application using tools I was familiar with, React for the framework, Redux.js to manage my state across components, and styled-components for the styling.

    Now as this was a project I was just working on in my free time for fun I didn't really want to pay for hosting. I did some research and I found Netlify. I had actually seen them at #ReactRally the year before and deployed a Gatsby site to Netlify already.

    Netlify was very easy to setup and link to my GitHub account you select a repo and pretty much with very little configuration you have a live site that will deploy every time you push to master.

    With the selection of these tools I was able to build out my application, connect it to a realtime database, and deploy to a live environment all with $0 spent.

    If you're looking to build out a small app I suggest giving these tools a go as you can get your idea out into the real world for absolutely no cost.

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    Collins Ogbuzuru
    Front-end dev at Evolve credit · | 38 upvotes · 261K views

    Your tech stack is solid for building a real-time messaging project.

    React and React Native are excellent choices for the frontend, especially if you want to have both web and mobile versions of your application share code.

    ExpressJS is an unopinionated framework that affords you the flexibility to use it's features at your term, which is a good start. However, I would recommend you explore Sails.js as well. Sails.js is built on top of Express.js and it provides additional features out of the box, especially the Websocket integration that your project requires.

    Don't forget to set up Graphql codegen, this would improve your dev experience (Add Typescript, if you can too).

    I don't know much about databases but you might want to consider using NO-SQL. I used Firebase real-time db and aws dynamo db on a few of my personal projects and I love they're easy to work with and offer more flexibility for a chat application.

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    Swift

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      Elegant
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      Not Objective-C
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      Backed by apple
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      Type inference
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      Generics
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      Playgrounds
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      Semicolon free
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      OSX
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      Tuples offer compound variables
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      Clean Syntax
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      Easy to learn
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      Open Source
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      Beautiful Code
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      Functional
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      Dynamic
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      Linux
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      Protocol-oriented programming
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      Promotes safe, readable code
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      No S-l-o-w JVM
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      Explicit optionals
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      Storyboard designer
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      Optionals
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      Type safety
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      Super addicting language, great people, open, elegant
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      Best UI concept
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      Its friendly
    • 4
      Highly Readable codes
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      Fail-safe
    • 4
      Powerful
    • 4
      Faster and looks better
    • 4
      Swift is faster than Objective-C
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      Feels like a better C++
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      Easy to learn and work
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      Much more fun
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      Protocol extensions
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      Native
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      Its fun and damn fast
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      Strong Type safety
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      Easy to Maintain
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      Protocol as type
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      All Cons C# and Java Swift Already has
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      Esay
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      MacOS
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      Type Safe
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      Protocol oriented programming
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      Can interface with C easily
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      Actually don't have to own a mac
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      Free from Memory Leak
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      Swift is easier to understand for non-iOS developers.
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      Numbers with underbar
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      Optional chain
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      Great for Multi-Threaded Programming
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      Runs Python 8 times faster
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      Objec
    CONS OF SWIFT
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      Must own a mac
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      Memory leaks are not uncommon
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      Very irritatingly picky about things that’s
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      Complicated process for exporting modules
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      Its classes compile to roughly 300 lines of assembly
    • 1
      Is a lot more effort than lua to make simple functions
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      Overly complex options makes it easy to create bad code

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    Conor Myhrvold
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    Excerpts from how we developed (and subsequently open sourced) Uber's cross-platform mobile architecture framework, RIBs , going from Objective-C to Swift in the process for iOS: https://github.com/uber/RIBs

    Uber’s new application architecture (RIBs) extensively uses protocols to keep its various components decoupled and testable. We used this architecture for the first time in our new rider application and moved our primary language from Objective-C to Swift. Since Swift is a very static language, unit testing became problematic. Dynamic languages have good frameworks to build test mocks, stubs, or stand-ins by dynamically creating or modifying existing concrete classes.

    Needless to say, we were not very excited about the additional complexity of manually writing and maintaining mock implementations for each of our thousands of protocols.

    The information required to generate mock classes already exists in the Swift protocol. For Uber’s use case, we set out to create tooling that would let engineers automatically generate test mocks for any protocol they wanted by simply annotating them.

    The iOS codebase for our rider application alone incorporates around 1,500 of these generated mocks. Without our code generation tool, all of these would have to be written and maintained by hand, which would have made testing much more time-intensive. Auto-generated mocks have contributed a lot to the unit test coverage that we have today.

    We built these code generation tools ourselves for a number of reasons, including that there weren’t many open source tools available at the time we started our effort. Today, there are some great open source tools to generate resource accessors, like SwiftGen. And Sourcery can help you with generic code generation needs:

    https://eng.uber.com/code-generation/ https://eng.uber.com/driver-app-ribs-architecture/

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    Ionic

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      Allows for rapid prototyping
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      Hybrid mobile
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      It's angularjs
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      Free
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      It's javascript, html, and css
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      Ui and theming
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      Great designs
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      Mv* pattern
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      Reuse frontend devs on mobile
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      Extensibility
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      Great community
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      Open source
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      Responsive design
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      Good cli
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      So easy to use
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      Angularjs-based
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      Beautifully designed
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      Widgets
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      Allows for rapid prototyping, hybrid mobile
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      Typescript
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      Quick prototyping, amazing community
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      Easy setup
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      Angular2 support
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      Fast, easy, free
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      Because of the productivity and easy for development
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      Base on angular
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      So much thought behind what developers actually need
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      Super fast, their dev team is amazingly passionate
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      Easy to use
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      It's Angular
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      UI is awesome
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      Hot deploy
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      Material design support using theme
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      Amazing support
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      It's the future
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      Angular
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      Allow for rapid prototyping
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      Easy setup, development and testing
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      Ionic creator
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      User Friendly
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      It's angular js
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      Complete package
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      Simple & Fast
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      Fastest growing mobile app framework
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      Best Support and Community
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      Material Design By Default
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      Cross platform
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      Documentation
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      Because I can use my existing web devloper skills
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      Removes 300ms delay in mobile browsers
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      Responsive
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      Native access
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      Typescript support
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      Ionic conect codeigniter
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      Fast Prototyping
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      All Trending Stack
    CONS OF IONIC
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      Not suitable for high performance or UI intensive apps
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      Not meant for game development
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      Not a native app

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    I'm currently doing some research to build a full cross-platform system that our personnel will use for various management and selling purposes, this is just a first step to migrate (and clean, lots of cleaning) a gigantic and obsolete system made in Java 7 with a nightmarish coupling between logic and view layers.

    Since the system itself is considerably large, we are currently migrating the essential modules of its logic to an ExpressJS driven Restful API.

    As a complementary project, I must find a way to share the highest possible amount of view code while achieving said cross-platform capacity.

    My approach is the following:

    • Angular 7+ and Ionic 5 for Android and iOS.
    • Angular 7+ for the web.
    • Angular 7+ and Electron for Desktop.

    While Angular is the common part, and considering that Ionic can work on any platform, i'm wondering what is the best way to achieve a non-conflicting integration of Electron.js to the very-commonly-used Angular+Ionic Stack for both Mobile and Web development?

    I've stumbled with a quite good template build called Polyonic but I would love to hear more about the matter before taking such a long-lasting decision.

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    Web Developer at Ecombooks · | 8 upvotes · 711K views

    I want to learn cross-platform application frameworks like React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, or Ionic, and I'm a web developer. I can learn other programming languages as well. But I'm confused about what to learn, which framework is best, and which framework will last long as the application grows further into complexity.

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