Choosing a core technology is one of the most important decisions that every CEO and CTO have to make. It determines how fast a mobile app can be shipped to market, what is the total cost and how painful maintenance will be.

React Native is known as a really promising technology since developers can deliver high-quality apps for Android and iOS using a fraction of the resources the native approach would take.

We’ve built a few apps with React Native and pointed out what we like and don’t like about it.

So, here’s our list of React Native pros and cons to help you make a better informed decision.

Pros of using React Native for your mobile app

Firstly, let’s highlight the main benefits of React Native to see whether it is on a target.

• One team – two platforms

With React Native you don’t have to hire two separate teams to build apps for iOS and Android. React Native devs handle both versions. As the result, the team is smaller, costs are lower and the project easier to manage.

React Native is based on JavaScript, one of the most popular programming languages in the world. So finding talent for an RN project shouldn’t be very hard. If you have experience with creating web applications (especially using ReactJS), you can apply existing skills to quickly expand into mobile.

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