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Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by jacksmith21006 »

adamqureshi wrote: post #24

I have a tiny marketplace start up and am building an iOS app for it. I know a strong dev who can build it in SWIFT + Firebase. BUT i am thinking (seeking feedback) if there are ANY advantages to using RN? I am not even considering flutter. I just want the app not to suffer from any performance issues. I am leaning towards shipping to app store ASAP. ( maybe 2-3 months)

Performance issues using Flutter? Not following? Flutter performance is excellent and it is still early days and will just get better.

But dev productivity is where Flutter sets it appart.

Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by gman83 »

afsina wrote: post #23

Although production quality, Flutter is not even 1.0.0 so don't expect a lot of public applications yet.

There are some:

https://flutter.io/showcase/

But yeah, I know a lot of developers who have started playing with Flutter in the last couple of months, so there should be a lot more later this year/next year.

Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by mikece »

joshstrange wrote: post #29
mikece wrote: post #13

Is there a larger question about how many cross-platform, non-hybrid applications are out there and which is the best stack for doing likewise? The field includes: Flutter, NativeScript, React Native, Ruby Motion, Xamarin, KikApp (PHP), PyMob and Kivy (python), RubyMotion (Ruby)... and of course C++.

Also Cordova/Ionic

That would be hybrid but I gather from the question that there's a goal to avoid that stack.

Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by seangransee »

Sushi Count, the market leading app for counting sushi, was built with React Native.

http://www.sushicount.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sushi-count/id655076814?ls=1...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seangranse...

Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by bybjorn »

slow_donkey wrote: post #38
dangelov wrote: post #7

Slightly off-topic, but it's super interesting to see Flutter (which seems to be by Google), use Visual Studio Code (by Microsoft) and an iPhone X simulator (by Apple) as their main demo. I guess it gets the point across.

I'm actually really happy they've invested in a vscode plugin. The Android story of being forced to use Android Studio was not fun, even considering how good Intellij is

Have you tried IntelliJ IDEA? It’s great for Flutter development.

Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by bybjorn »

adamqureshi wrote: post #24

I have a tiny marketplace start up and am building an iOS app for it. I know a strong dev who can build it in SWIFT + Firebase. BUT i am thinking (seeking feedback) if there are ANY advantages to using RN? I am not even considering flutter. I just want the app not to suffer from any performance issues. I am leaning towards shipping to app store ASAP. ( maybe 2-3 months)

Why are you not even considering Flutter? Flutter has all the needed Firebase libraries and AFAIK better performance than RN (no bridge)

Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by _bxg1 »

bybjorn wrote: post #46
adamqureshi wrote: post #24

I have a tiny marketplace start up and am building an iOS app for it. I know a strong dev who can build it in SWIFT + Firebase. BUT i am thinking (seeking feedback) if there are ANY advantages to using RN? I am not even considering flutter. I just want the app not to suffer from any performance issues. I am leaning towards shipping to app store ASAP. ( maybe 2-3 months)

Why are you not even considering Flutter? Flutter has all the needed Firebase libraries and AFAIK better performance than RN (no bridge)

Flutter isn't yet at a 1.0 release. It looks very cool and I'm excited about it personally, but compared to React and Swift it has less stability and far less tooling support and developer knowledge. There's also reason to believe that it could be abandoned by Google down the line: it's being developed by the Dart team, but it's inherently at odds with the Android team because it circumvents their API almost entirely.

I'd do a personal project in it, but I wouldn't start a business on it right now.

Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by askthrowaway »

oorza wrote: post #34
Gys wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RN is at 0.55-RC according to https://facebook.github.io/react-native/versions For open source frameworks the versions do not seem to be much indication for their maturity.

(six months into a react-native project) RN isn't production-ready/stable yet either. They're about to do a major overhaul of the internals because of fundamental flaws that have been surfaced by the community. While it's possible to use RN in production, "stable" is a laugh... there are monthly releases and almost all of them have some kind of breaking changes, so pacing RN releases is a huge fucking hassle. For exa…

Also the bug introduced in 0.55.3 where deleting from TextInput a few times make it very slow.. To fix it I have to upgrade to higher version which drops support for iOS 8 !!

Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by adamqureshi »

_bxg1 wrote: post #28
adamqureshi wrote: post #24

I have a tiny marketplace start up and am building an iOS app for it. I know a strong dev who can build it in SWIFT + Firebase. BUT i am thinking (seeking feedback) if there are ANY advantages to using RN? I am not even considering flutter. I just want the app not to suffer from any performance issues. I am leaning towards shipping to app store ASAP. ( maybe 2-3 months)

Well the obvious advantage of using React Native is portability to Android. The less-obvious advantage is partial portability to the web (would still take additional dev work, but some code could be shared) and the ability to hire JavaScript developers instead of Swift developers, of which there are lots more. But if it's definitely an iOS exclusive and you don't plan on scaling your dev team up massively in the futu…

Thank you! Yeah for version 1 its iOS, most of my customers are on iphone. the other thing i need feedback on is, do i charge charge $1 to download the app or not? i do plan to charge to list your item for sale. Last i heard apple takes 22%? no way im gonna run ads on it.
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