Ask HN: Can you recommend between Flutter, Next.js and React Native?

Hi guys I am trying to decide which framework to use with AWS Amplify. Can you share your experiences? I am leaning towards Flutter because it uses a single code base to push across mobile & desktop but I wonder how true this really is.

I haven't used AWS Amplify before but should it speed up the development of backend? Does it provide CRUD essentially?

I am trying to wrap my head around all of this because it's been a while since I've done mobile app development, as in 2012.

Yes primarily to build a mobile app but I want to be able to have a web version as well. I guess I want to understand what the overall experience has been using Flutter with Amplify as that seems to be the winning combo, although I am open minded.

I've used React/Redux before and couldn't help but feel that it was over-engineered sort of like micro-service architecture but to each his own.

I would first question whether or not you actually need a web version and if it might be a very different experience. I only say this because I wasted months duplicating my app experience to the web and less than 1% of users use the web version regularly.

I've worked with React Native for iOS and Android and would recommended it. It's a huge challenge to make complex apps feel as fast and slick as building in Swift, but that may be an issue with any js framework (and I may be biased from working in Swift also).

The popularity of React is another plus: it's easy enough for a web React developer to learn React Native.

If you're going focus mobile app, web is just nice to have, I would suggest use native (Swift/Kotlin,Java) to build your app, it may take some time at the beginning, but it'd save a lot of your time on dealing verity of issues (like setup Payment, Notification)。

I'm building a blogging, journal app (https://giki.app) and it's using React native, it got up and running very quickly at beginning util I need enable in app purchase.