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5 Reasons Why Flutter Is Better Than React Native
Reasons to choose Flutter for your next cross-platform app, with findings from an in-depth study of both frameworks
Nowadays, programmers have two competitive cross-platform application development choices: Flutter and React Native. We can use both frameworks to build cross-platform mobile apps and desktop apps. Both frameworks indeed look similar from the outside and in the available features. Hopefully, you have already read many comparisons and reviews about Flutter and React Native. Many developers think that Flutter won’t be widely used because it uses an unfamiliar programming language, Dart. A programming language is just an interface for developers to interact with the framework.
How a particular framework solves the cross-platform development problem is more important than the popularity of a specific framework’s programming language. I did some quick research on the internal architecture of both Flutter and React Native. Also, I created several applications on various platforms using both frameworks. Finally, I found the following benefits if you develop your next awesome app with Flutter.
Flutter Has a Near-Native Performance
Nowadays, performance is so underrated because of powerful devices. However, users have devices with various sorts of specifications. Some users may try to run your application while running many other applications. Your application should work fine in all these conditions. Therefore, performance is still a crucial factor in modern cross-platform applications. Undoubtedly, an application written without any framework performs better than Flutter and React Native apps. But we often have to choose a cross-platform application framework for rapid feature delivery.
A typical React Native app has two separate modules: native UI and JavaScript engine. React Native renders native platform-specific UI elements based on React state changes. On the other hand, it uses a JavaScript engine (it’s Hermes in most scenarios) to run the application’s JavaScript. Every JavaScript-to-native and native-to-JavaScript call goes through a JavaScript bridge, similar to Apache Cordova’s design. React Native silently bundles your…
