One codebase, two platforms. When React Native is the right call — and when it isn’t.
Category · Mobile
One codebase, two platforms.
React Native is Meta’s open-source framework for building native iOS and Android apps from a single JavaScript/TypeScript codebase. No WebView shell — it renders real native UI elements, just driven from JavaScript.
For products that have to run on both platforms and don’t push every native edge case, it’s the most economical architecture that exists today.
Why we bet on it.
We build mobile products with short time-to-market and long lifespan. React Native gives us that: shared logic, platform-specific polish, a large ecosystem (Expo, EAS, React Navigation), and full access to sensors and device features.
If an app shares 90% of its logic and needs 10% platform-specific detail, React Native is the right call. If it’d be 50% native, it isn’t.
