React Native vs Ionic vs NativeScript vs Android/ iOS Native Apps

Time for the ultimate comparison - who wins? React Native? Ionic? NativeScript? Native apps built with just Android and Swift? Let'see!

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[FidelGuajardo]

With Vuejs being a serious competitor to React and now with the NativeScript-Vue integration, I think NativeScript is a serious competitor to ReactNative. It will be very interesting to see the popularity trends by end of 2018.

[tobyokeke]

Lmao. "Wix which you might have seen at the beginning of this video" haha. Those guys are steady on YouTube ads

[sangeethks]

I'm a Vue.js developer and I came to know about Weex which is the alternative to React's React-native. The only thing bad about this project is that its not officially out for production usage, but I thing once it came out, it would change the current market ad Vue.js gaining its popularity.

[padonker]

It would have been interesting to add Expo to the mix. It combines most strengths of RN with some of the advantages of Nativescript. It's basically a wrapper around RN and gives you a decent set of components (enough for most apps) but abstracts you from the native side of things. Plus running on your device is a breeze because you can load it in their shell app for testing.

[paregis]

Great comparison! But I think you should include Flutter too, if possible :D

[EdigleyssonSilva]

First of all thank you for this video, great work! I have a question, what do you think about Xamarin ?

[iuliuvisovan]

Ive been using React Native for work for past 6 months and I'm pretty sure that RN is on the far left end of the "write once use everywhere" axis. I literally have like ~20 'if' statements (in a project with 100+ screens) to compensate layout differences between the 2 platforms (such as switches, alerts, inputs), but apart from that everything's the same.

[parikshitraghav]

man thanks this was what i was looking from past few century <3

[OussamaBezzad]

Summary:
1- Java, Swift (Best option)
2- Nativescript (Best alternative but not so popular)
3- React Native (very popular and maintained by Facebook, they also use it in some of their apps)
4- Ionic (Worst option for native-like app, If you care about performance. Ionic is not the best choice. But the advantage is that you can make a self-hosted static website that customers can save in their phone)

I see that u need to add Progressive Web Apps to the comparison.
Thank you for such a good video.

[nichanson]

Love how nativescript has sidekick to easily deploy apps either for testing or to the app stores of both Apple and Andriod. Also love how NS can super easily access the OS' system. Finally I absolutely love there's no commercialised motive behind its framework. It's truly open sourced and aimed at speed and native like apps.

[paulius-lt]

Perfect analysis and all aspect was assessed very well with right placement, however I would share one more real world example where Ionic is “silver bullet” for success - enterprise apps designed for employees of one company, apps utilising MDM, single sign on (Kerberos/NTLM). Ionic provides opportunity to publish internal UI components library, apps templates, APIs and empower fastest and most cost efficient enterprise mobility adoption.

I mentioned very specific use case, however it is fast growing industry where even Ionic framework developers yet not derived full potential.

[laurentsmohr]

UPDATE: AirBnb just switched from React Native to Java/Swift. Reason is, that they now can easily afford two teams, specifically for Android and IOS, which they couldn't when they were just starting out.

[deangrande]

NativeScript ftw. I've built with this for 2 years, weekly builds for iOS and Android. Ask me anything

[NightstalkerKK]

Please make a NativeScript tutorial series

[siluros]

I feel that the main advantage of nativescript is that you can build it on top of angular using typescript, and for that reason, from my perspective, it's usage will grow. Great video, as always

[LorenzoJimenez]

You can also use Xamarin to create IOS and Android apps with C Sharp.

[jafar]

It is unfair for nativescript, it is really new in the market and has got this much popularity..! I think the duration it is active on market counts..!

[iMaxos]

I think now that we're in 2020 this video needs a refresh! EDIT: NEVERMIND I FOUND IT

[olmanmora]

Nativescript seems to be a very interenting option, not too popular the downside, but the fact that it's not tied to framework is a good point, anyways there's plenty react fanboys out there and that's the tendency nowadays

[TheSirOwner]

you did not compare "Flutter" framework from google!