Ask HN: How are you using React Native in your production app?

4 points by rambossa 8 years ago | 1 comment

It's now 2018. Most hype and notable examples I saw with RN were around 2016 (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html).

What is the state of React Native today? How are you using it successfully, and at what scale? Any large applications that have fully implemented it?

My success isn't beyond fast proofs-of-concepts or simple ux applications. Success for me is defined as a system engineered simply and effectively.

So my naive assumption is that it cannot reach much "success" beyond the hype it generates in the JS community. I work on production native iPad apps with iOS, and can not imagine that their development in RN would be "simple" like it is natively. Cross-platform is great & I can develop fast with RN-- But, I always feel like something is off, and that I'm engineering around leaky-abstractions and that "custom tweaks/hacks" occur more often than not (which rarely occur when working with native SDKs).

onion2k 8 years ago |

I'm coming to the end of a build of an RN app for a startup with lots of custom mapping and graphing stuff. It leans heavily on MapboxGL and react-native-svg to do some cool stuff. Building the same thing natively would have taken at least 3* longer, and there haven't been any particularly bad hacks necessary. I've been impressed by the performance too. I have no regrets about using RN.