Flutter vs React

The development in the field of technologies is getting advanced day by day and our world is getting smaller everyday. We are able to know everything happening around the world in the snap of a finger through the small gadget in our hands. In the mobile app development field Flutter, React, Iconic etc are trending. A developer always has to face the decision to choose between two or more technologies which are very popular and trending in that particular field of development. Flutter and React are chosen by many developers since you can develop cross platform mobile apps in a very fast manner, you can also reduce the cost of cross -platform development. Let’s analyse both of the frameworks first.


React Native- It is known that it is open-source and you can build mobile apps for both Android OS and IOS using React. React is widely used for developing interfaces for mobile platforms. Mobile apps developed using React can be shared among platforms therefore it is easy for the developers to develop apps for both Android and IOS platforms. Efficient mobility solutions with combined development teams are another quality for developing web and mobile applications using React. You can write natively rendering and real mobile apps for Android, Windows and IOS platforms. It makes use of uniform standard User Interface elements like any other Android, IOS applications.


Flutter- Google released Flutter in 2018 as a software development kit for developing cross platform mobile applications. It is used for building native apps for multi-platforms.This framework is based on reactive programming. It has a high performance rendering engine that offers widgets for the development. These widgets have a great role in providing the smooth look and feel of flutter apps. It is based on Dart which is fast and  uses OOPS concepts


When choosing between Flutter and React first consider the efficiency and productivity. Flutter apps become a bit complex because of the new concepts therefore even having a hot reload  like React doesn’t work as expected.React provides a wide range of IDE support so we can use any text editor of our choice. React Native apps have only APIs for accessing device features and UI rendering components,for others it depends on third party libraries. Flutter doesn’t have to rely very much on  third-party  libraries since it has its own components and APIs. React is very much popular since it was released before Flutter. The developer community for the support of Flutter is relatively smaller compared to React.