5 years as a React Native Developer - some more thoughts

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[Eliasdbr]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I'm developing a RN app for a company since the beginning of 2022, and I feel like the main issue with react native is the lack of standard, up to date libraries, in fact, some popular libraries are not being maintained frequently. Another problem that I usually face is the difficulty to upgrade libraries for my project, especially RN itself.
Keep up with the good work!

[Kevin-jcfx]

Thanks for your insights. Tools are tools. A good react native dev can do things that a bad native dev would consider impossible. We need to pick the right tool for the right job and master our chosen tool as much as possible.

[jayadky]

Amazing video! I am a final year student in University and It has been around 1 year for me learning React Native. But when I look at job portals and LinkedIn, there are a very few listing available for React Native. That really saddens me😢

[terjemah_alquran]

Thank you for sharing. I started releasing my app in 2020 when working from home due to COVID. I received a lot of feedback, and since then, the app has grown into a company

[justpatrick_]

Thanks a lot Jimmy for the advice. You've helped me a lot with your videos.

[twosballer]

Great video Jimmy. Thank you for sharing

[questerstudio]

Nice one Jimmy, your points are valid.

I've doing RN for 2yrs now. I started a react native channel and I have been thinking of creating a course for RN. There are a lot of beginner courses, so I am thinking of something different, maybe focus only on the difficult bits like In-app purchases. From your experience what topics would you choose for a react native difficult bits course?

Thanks... keep up the great work!

[kibadev]

Thank you this is my second year in dev

[rahul]

Hi Jimmy I have been hooked to you channel since you had the bridge video for React Native and considered this channel to be one of the must one's to learn about React Native in depth. I have been in the React Native space for close to 3-4 years and lately have seen a lot of requirements for IOT based mobile applications . The challenge specifically is it at times it is very difficult to convince the stakeholders to move towards React Native for such applications as respect to Native particularly considering the UI aspect for such apps is not important as compared to the background processes . What is your rough take on IOT based applications as a fit for React Native just on a high level. Keep doing the amazing content!!

[GringoDotDev]

You make some great points! I'm half convinced that all the bikeshedding we see on Youtube re: hot new toolchains is really just an excuse to put off the inevitable (i.e. launching one's app to real users).

[tdelaveau]

Hey mate, I was just curious how old were you when you started learning RN and how long did it take you to land a paid job. Also, how much time did you put each week to the learning process before getting paid. Thanks :)

[DevlogBill]

Welcome back Jimmy on your 5th React Native anniversary. Excellent videos as usual. I had a question pertaining to React Native. I kind of have an idea how React Native would use a backend technology. I am guessing the only use case would be for React Native to make an API request for Data on a particular set of information on the application which is being displayed on the frontend? I ask because I've been learning and creating a bunch of APIs using Django and some very basic crud applications. Since the job market around my area has a lot more React and React Native positions being posted over Django positions. My aim is to primarily focus on React Native and learn enough of Django to provide services for the frontend.
Question? From your personal experience what types of requests do most of your projects require from a backend technology? Soon I will began learning and creating React Native apps so I can add them to my Django projects. But I am trying to understand exactly what type of services a backend would provide to a React Native project. Thanks Jimmy love your channel you have some good insights I noticed.

[Mike_bbbbb]

Curious if you still feel that you'd go all in on swift/iOS if you were a beginner again. That's what I'm leaning towards as an actual beginner, for the same reasons you mention in your previous video.

[nateudev]

Hey Jimmy! Great content and thanks for sharing your thoughts. Honestly, I'm kinda trying to switch from full stack to mobile development 100%, and having 4 years of experience on that makes me want to ask something, is you were in my position, would you rather learn some basics about native and then go into RN, or just simply start all over RN? I ask this because at the moment, I know I could not change my current job to a RN job, because of the lack of knowledge, so basically at the moment let's say is gonna be like a friendly and enjoyable approach.

[FireLiteCreations]

Thanks for sharing your insights. I'm working on a few app ideas and was wondering how do you obtain quality feedback from users? Do you use Firebase Analytics, Sentry, or Hotjar, or is there a better qualitative approach?

[Rivernile]

Hey Jimmy, thanks for the great video. Around last year Year you mentioned Shopify restyle was really great for react native. What are your thoughts for this year? Since it looks like restyle isn’t being updated anymore, you think stylesheet api is the way to go? Any ui libraries you recommend

[visheshgupta]

Thanks you for sharing your thoughts .... Useful 💯, I want to build a live Trivia quiz application is it a good idea to build it with react native I didn't start react native or flutter or kotlin language till yet .... but because I am a web developer I like to choose react native please guide which tech stack should I choose from a long term and scaling perspective ....

[griffinkirkland]

I love youtube.

you think you want the truth, you will not get the truth, you will get reality.
I just saw a video before this one, title is
"The Time for React Native is NOW"

[yunyang]

Could you show us some of the apps you built?

[wezter]

Are you still as passionate about developing or do you mainly see it as a source of income?

I always want to raise the bar of the code I am writing but different levels are required for different projects. If we are building an app for a multi million dollar company then the need for coming close to perfection is a lot higher and the stakes are higher than when helping a startup with a way smaller budget.