Facebook’s React Native could succeed where other cross-platform frameworks have failed
At the F8 developer conference earlier this week, Facebook reported an unprecedented 85 percent reuse of code attributable to React Native on its internally developed Android and iOS Ads Manager app.
On top of that, the company announced that Microsoft will port React Native to run on Windows 10, Windows phones and Xbox One. And Samsung announced it would port React Native to its Tizen OS that runs on many devices, including wearables and smart TVs.
That is significant considering cross-platform frameworks have such a bad reputation that developers often joke that Mark Twain once said, “There are lies, damn lies and then there is cross-platform.”
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