NativeScript vs React: What are the differences?
What is NativeScript? Build truly native apps with JavaScript. NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.
What is React? A JavaScript library for building user interfaces. 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.
NativeScript and React are primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" and "Javascript UI Libraries" tools respectively.
"Access to the entire native api" is the primary reason why developers consider NativeScript over the competitors, whereas "Components" was stated as the key factor in picking React.
NativeScript and React are both open source tools. It seems that React with 132K GitHub stars and 24.5K forks on GitHub has more adoption than NativeScript with 17.2K GitHub stars and 1.28K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, React has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3224 company stacks & 3093 developers stacks; compared to NativeScript, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 26 developer stacks.