Which Framework Is Better for Cross-Platform / Hybrid Mobile App Development? (Ionic Vs. React Native)

Thursday, July 5, 2018

Which Framework Is Better for Cross-Platform / Hybrid Mobile App Development? (Ionic Vs. React Native)

Ionic Vs. React Native :

The objective of this post is to inform the most important differences between Ionic (2,3,4) and React Native, This artical will hopefully give you the information you need to make an educated choice about the stack that will work best for your project.

When you start to use new technology, you cannot be sure it will be the best solution. In some cases, some issues are through time duration and number of apps/projects. In this post, I am going to show a comparison between two frameworks, which are React Native and Ionic. I will explain based on my real time experience in app development.
Now a days there are so many hybrid mobile frameworks are available, such as Ionic, NativeScript, React Native, Xamarin, PhoneGap. But according to me there are top 2 hybrid frameworks are available and which are — Ionic and React Native

Ionic Overview

Ionic is an open source, cross-platform framework used to develop hybrid mobile applications. Ionic is a mobile app development framework based on the HTML5 programming language. The HTML5 framework always works with the help of Cordova or PhoneGap. Hence, Ionic needs both of them.

Ionic is the only mobile / hybrid app framework that easily allow web developers to build mobile apps for all major app stores and the mobile web with a single code base. And with Ionic’s Platform Continuity, your app looks and feels at home on every device. Ionic community has developed more than 4M ionic apps.

Ionic has free & Open Source — 100% source code on Github
Ionic is fully Cross-Platform framework. Which can be used for IOS, Android, Windows, Web, Desktop, PWA.
Ionic is premier Native Plugins — Camera, Bluetooth, Push Notifications
Ionic is first-class Documentation — Clear and Consistent

Advantages of the Ionic Framework

Fast development-testing cycle.
It cross-compiles to iOS and Android.
It is platform independent whether it has to work with HTML, CSS, JS, or AngularJS.
Ionic is easy to learn & work with.
In ionic you can write code in TypeScript (like angular 2,3,4 code), which makes it easy if you are having experience of AngularJS 2/3/4.
In ionic you can easily use TypeScript (like angular2) to develop applications for all platforms.
You can access the native functionalities of your user’s devices with the plugin system.
Angular itself is easier to learn & work with, for smaller projects than React.

React Native Overview

The goal of React Native framework is not to provide a way to write once, and run everywhere. Rather, React Native want all developers to use the components which is best for the native behaviors of the all platforms. For example, Android has a highly customizable toolbar but iOS does not have this. You can use the toolbar for Android but you need to use something different for iOS platform.

React Native is a JavaScript library that is used to develop UI. React Native Framework is fully managed and maintained by a community of expert React Native developers and leading corporations, including Facebook and Instagram. It helps all mobile apps developers to reuse the code which is already used in any Android or iOS apps.

Advantages of React Native

React Native framework is developed by a very good and strong community of developers and corporations, which helps all developers to make speed up the learning and development process of there application. 
React Native has response time that could be compared to native apps.
React Native has ability to reuse the code parts (not all code) for desktop (web apps) and mobile (mobile apps) and even for the server.
React Native has quickly develop and debug the app functionality.
React Native has big amount of elaborated components from Facebook.
React Native has even bigger amount of components from community.
React Native allows developers to reuse existing code, it makes it very speedy to deliver the apps.

Ionic vs. React Native:

If you want to select development tool for your hybrid app from these two options, You need to definitely familiarize yourself with the all key features that makes Ionic and React Native different with each other.

However, I can just tell you which one I batter. It is React Native. I personally suggest the native rendering more than the other things. According to me, Apps speed need to be extremely fast, smooth and responsive, Also in React Native, I have found a good compromise between writing pure native code, or pure hybrid apps. This is the best part of rect native.

Now, According to me my best advise to you is : You should try them out both and pick one which is easy to use according to your requirements and make the best out of it!