React Native vs Flutter in 2021 - Developer Perspective

In this video, I'm trying to compare React Native and Flutter from a developer perspective. I'm talking about technology, overall experience, and trying to find out which technology is more future-proof. Enjoy!

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[BERTDELASPEED]

I can't believe in just 2 months (currently June) the tide turned. I just did the comparison on google trends and now Flutter is leading in most countries

[dmytroyakymenko]

I choose flutter. It is pleasant to code with it and It will become only more popular with time. There will still be many react native developers, but a newbie should learn flutter, I think.

[devnetindonesia]

Nice comparison, simple and to the point, by the way i'm starting to learn native ios development becoz of you bro, thx for sharing learning material from stanford.

[aaronarnold]

U.S. Job Postings on Indeed: Flutter 579, React Native 5, 399

[kotlin_man]

My experience in this 3 years being flutter developer was that when your make a complex design (controlling shapes) is to hard also there less packages, resources in this part. But i think flutter for 2 or 3 ago becomes a complete framework❤️😊

[phanethpho]

Flutter can deploy for mobile (iOS and Android), web app and desktop application ( MacOS, windowsOS and LinuxOS), I decided selected flutter

[pandaengine]

Flutter is just so great at this point. And it's only getting better. I work as a full time Flutter developer. In a few years, it'll be the best option for cross platform apps, especially with the desktop support.

[ivantrj]

A great comparison, to the point. Keep it up man

[YouTube-Joy-Happy]

I was a beginner I tried both react native and flutter and stayed with flutter as the code made complete sense.

[eric]

Wow. Just about to hire a mobile developer and realized I should either hire a react native or flutter developer. I didn’t even have the chance to google the differences it just showed up in my recommended videos!

[alaaunsplash]

For me as a beginner, and I had no software experience at all, I want to work as a freelancer here, how to choose one of them, taking into account the ease of learning, performance, and interface

[isaac]

React native and flutter is popular but not many job posting. I would recommend learning native language like Kotlin of swift and after you can learn a cross platform.

[heisenberg]

Flutter is way better than react native in case of performance and beginner friendly but still it is new it takes some time maybe in 2-3 years you might be able to find the solutions for whatever the issue you have rn, I recommend students to learn flutter because at the time of you finishing college flutter will be in a better level !

[DaveJacobseniOS]

Nice vid Tom! I do native iOS but may dabble in flutter in the future. Your channel is a great resource!

[georap]

this is an amazing video. thank you so much.

[alexkey]

Chose react native 5 years ago, tried flutter when first came out but was full of issues. Still on react-native as of now and not an issue. I just wish I had the time to learn swift and kotlin.

[LUKAS]

the article offers a classical pears to apple comparison in the `heavy animations test`

[camilosantos]

I like your advice to try both frameworks. In the same way that we have several technologies for development on the back end that we can also have on mobile. What ends up defining are the preferences and skills, personal to each developer. By the way I prefer react-native :)

[alibarznji]

For a JS developer, react native is so much easier to use.
And I hate the fact that flutter(Dart rather) is very object oriented which I don't like.
I have used both frameworks and I have to say,
Flutter while very performant throughout, but it lacks efficiency and it's not very popular, along with the OOP "problem" that I mentioned.
Of course if you like OOP you can choose flutter.
React native comes from a familiar background and it works with CSS and HTML(JSX), and as you said it's much more mature than flutter.
The only problem with RN is the breaking updates that happen almost every two or three months which could be a deal breaker for some developers.
Overall, I personally prefer react native because it has more job opportunities,
Keep in Mind though, flutter is closer to the native app performance compared to React native

[arjhayfrias]

Started learning flutter from scratch. I easily learned Dart after 1 week then jump on flutter for 2 weeks. I would say that i saw some un fixable bugs. Thou the app still runs it gave me warning that aren't solvable rn.