React and React Native, both are Javascripts introduced by Facebook with an intention to provide a seamless experience to its users. With the high influx of Facebook users, the company needed to transform its User Interface(UI) to ensure the smooth running of the application. Facebook first introduced React to improve its UI performance; however, later React Native(which was derived from React) came into existence. React Native was solely introduced to provide hassle-free UI for mobile applications.
What is React?
React is an open-source javascript library that is used for front-end development to create a fast and smooth user interface for web applications. It creates components using Javascript to build intuitive and interactive UIs. It allows you to pick what you need and add it to the code directly.
Benefits of react
Component-based architecture
The component-based architecture contains several components (pieces of the user interface) that can be directly changed, updated, and rendered which saves ample time.
SEO Friendly
Javascript being hard to read by the search engines has posed many issues for web developers. ReactJs eliminates all such issues because it supports client-side rendering and server-side rendering. Therefore it can be easily crawled and navigated by different search engines.
What is react native?
React Native is also a Javascript framework for ios and android mobile applications. Where React is used to create web UI, React Native is utilized to build mobile UIs. However, both React and React Native use Javascript and XML markup, JSX. Applications built on React Native also access phone features like camera, GPS, etc.
Benefits of react-native
Reusable code component
For React Native Application, the same code can be used for iOS and Android. This means huge cost and time-saving. In fact, 90% of the code can be reused for any modifications which eliminate the need for big teams and help in cost saving.
Performance acceleration
React Native is extremely fast as it uses a Graphics Processing Unit(GPU) due to which the speed of the application increases drastically. Even faster than the cross-platform hybrid technologies.
Large developer community
React Native uses community-driven technology thus any difficulty faced by a developer can be easily solved by peer support. React Native developers can also connect with each other to improve their codes. Moreover, it is an open-source platform so anyone can use the technology freely.
Difference Between React Vs React-native
| React | React Native |
| Build a stable and fast user interface for websites | Build a robust & fast mobile app for a variety of operating system |
| Open-source library | Open-source framework |
| Javascript library & CSS for animations | Uses built-in animation libraries |
| Uses HTML tags | Doesn’t use HTML tags |
| Single platform | Cross-platform |
| High security | Low security |
| Uses local storage | Utilizes async storage |
| Server-side rendering | Not available |
| Build APIs for integration of database | Uses realm |
Conclusion
React is a UI library to create projects for small, large, and medium organizations. React is one of the best technologies to use in projects that need frequent user interactions and animations whereas React Native is a UI framework that is used for building mobile applications and defines elements as well as a behavior of the UI subsystem.
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