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React Native

Meaning in mobile app development, with examples

nounCore term

In mobile app development, React Native means: A cross-platform framework created by Meta that lets developers build iOS and Android apps with JavaScript or TypeScript and React, using real native UI components.

In Turkish: React Native

How it is used

Popular with teams that already know React for the web. Developers mention Expo, a toolset that makes React Native projects easier to set up and build, and native modules, which they write when they need platform features that React Native does not provide.

Example sentences

  1. Our web team already knows React, so React Native was the obvious choice.

  2. This animation is smooth in Swift but drops frames in React Native.

Common collocations

  • React Native app
  • React Native developer
  • built with React Native
  • React Native project
  • FlutterGoogle's open-source framework for building mobile, web and desktop apps from one codebase; it uses the Dart language and draws its own UI on the screen.
  • cross-platformDescribes an app or framework that runs on more than one platform, usually both iOS and Android, from one shared codebase.
  • hot reloadA development feature that shows code changes in the running app within a second or two, usually without losing the current screen or its state.
  • native appAn app built for one specific platform with that platform's own languages and tools, such as Swift for iOS or Kotlin for Android.

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