React Native

React Native is a framework for building iOS and Android apps from a single JavaScript or TypeScript codebase, rendering real native interface components rather than a web view.

Its practical advantages are the ecosystem and the hiring pool: it shares language and much tooling with web development, so a team can work across both, and libraries exist for most common needs.

The rough edges are consistent — anything needing a platform capability without a maintained library requires writing native code, and version upgrades occasionally break dependencies. Neither is disqualifying; both are worth budgeting for.

Why it matters

For most business apps this is the sensible default. It's also the reason a mobile MVP can be quoted in thousands rather than tens of thousands.

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