What I dislike about React Native: Regenerating The iOS and Android Folders

The iPhone 3G was introduced in The Netherlands on the 8th of June 2008. If there’s one thing I loved was the way that he platform dictated how to build an app for it. It was clear. It was solid. Then I got hooked on Cordova. And that was fine too. When I look at frameworks like React Native I see what developers like about it. But I also dislike one thing: Regeneration The iOS and Android folder just is a pain in the *ss….

Cross-Platform development

Developing a cross-platform app has a big advantage that you can develop your business logic and — if the platform allows you to — some interaction logic and screen set up once, and roll it out on both iOS and Android. (Wuh, did you say Windows?.. that’s long gone, sorry…).

Before frameworks like React Native and Xamarin really got some crowd going with them, there were hybrid alternatives going around like Apache Cordova / Phonegap. I hooked up with them around 2011 as well and I loved it.

I ♥️ Cordova Hybrid

Cordova was sweet because it allowed web developers to use HTML, CSS, and JS to implement a mobile application and roll it out on iOS and Android.