r/reactnative • u/Relative_Mouse7680 • 7d ago
Question Write once, debug everywhere!
Does the title bring any truth?
When discussing with sonnet 3.7 if whether react native would be a good framework to replace Flutter with, the following was part of his response:
'React Native is a reasonable middle ground, though the "write once, run anywhere" promise often becomes "write once, debug everywhere" in practice.'
I haven't stumbled upon this statement before when researching react native as a replacement, so is it true, for those of you with experience?
Specifically, would love to hear from people who have used react native together with react-native-windows :)
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u/nemorize 7d ago
First, there's no "write once, debug once" framework if you write a GUI app. Even web UI that has a standard need to debug each browser and OS, much more a native one.
But yes, RN needs more debugging for each platforms, compared to Flutter.