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Pros of Expo
- Free15
- Hot Reload13
- Easy to learn9
- Common ios and android app setup9
- Open Source6
- Streamlined6
- Builds into a React Native app5
- PWA supported2
- Plugins for web use with Next.js1
Pros of Flutter
- Hot Reload142
- Cross platform121
- Performance104
- Backed by Google89
- Compiled into Native Code73
- Fast Development59
- Open Source58
- Fast Prototyping53
- Single Codebase49
- Expressive and Flexible UI48
- Reactive Programming36
- Material Design34
- Dart30
- Widget-based29
- Target to Fuchsia26
- IOS + Android20
- Easy to learn17
- Great CLI Support16
- You can use it as mobile, web, Server development14
- Tooling14
- Debugging quickly13
- Have built-in Material theme13
- Good docs & sample code12
- Target to Android12
- Community12
- Support by multiple IDE: Android Studio, VS Code, XCode11
- Easy Testing Support10
- Written by Dart, which is easy to read code10
- Real platform free framework of the future9
- Have built-in Cupertino theme9
- Target to iOS9
- Easy to Unit Test8
- Easy to Widget Test8
- Large Community1
Pros of React Native
- Learn once write everywhere211
- Cross platform171
- Javascript167
- Native ios components122
- Built by facebook69
- Easy to learn65
- Bridges me into ios development45
- It's just react39
- No compile39
- Declarative36
- Fast22
- Virtual Dom13
- Insanely fast develop / test cycle12
- Livereload12
- Great community11
- It is free and open source9
- Native android components9
- Easy setup9
- Backed by Facebook9
- Highly customizable7
- Scalable7
- Awesome6
- Everything component6
- Great errors6
- Win win solution of hybrid app6
- Not dependent on anything such as Angular5
- Simple5
- Awesome, easy starting from scratch4
- OTA update4
- As good as Native without any performance concerns3
- Easy to use3
- Many salary2
- Can be incrementally added to existing native apps2
- Hot reload2
- Over the air update (Flutter lacks)2
- 'It's just react'2
- Web development meets Mobile development2
- Ngon1
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Cons of Flutter
- Need to learn Dart29
- Lack of community support10
- No 3D Graphics Engine Support10
- Graphics programming8
- Lack of friendly documentation6
- Lack of promotion2
- Https://iphtechnologies.com/difference-between-flutter1
Cons of React Native
- Javascript23
- Built by facebook19
- Cant use CSS12
- 30 FPS Limit4
- Slow2
- Generate large apk even for a simple app2
- Some compenents not truly native2
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What is Expo?
It is a framework and a platform for universal React applications. It is a set of tools and services built around React Native and native platforms that help you develop, build, deploy, and quickly iterate on iOS, Android, and web apps.
What is Flutter?
Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.
What is 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.
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What are some alternatives to Expo, Flutter, and React Native?
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.
Create React Native App
Create React Native App allows you to work with all of the Components and APIs in React Native, as well as most of the JavaScript APIs that the Expo App provides.
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.
Apache Cordova
Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
PhoneGap
PhoneGap is a web platform that exposes native mobile device apis and data to JavaScript. PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. PhoneGap allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's sensors, data, and network status.