It is really encouraging to see the efforts of Meta and other major players in the ecosystem to actively collaborate and improve the capabilities in terms of debugging, upgrades and dealing with native code, effectively addressing the feedback from last year’s edition of the survey. The focus has shifted towards improving developer experience, with unclear error messages ranking higher than stability or performance concerns, confirming the maturity of the framework.
React Native developers encounter the same challenges as native Android and iOS developers, such as keyboard handling or end-to-end testing, but this only proves how close it gets to truly native development. At the same time, React Native is appreciated for its cross-platform capabilities, code sharing, alignment with web standards, hot reload and over-the-air updates, most of which are unheard of in traditional platform-specific applications.
We asked members of the React Native community to share their opinions about the results
