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It's a power amplifier for development, especially if you don't have ObjC/Swift Devs. I picked it up in October 2016 at the request of a client who I had built a web app for. He asked for a proof of concept, and me being intrigued by React Native said I'd check it out and try to build a minimalistic proof of concept to see if we can proceed with the project.

I did not have any experience with mobile development or React, and only knew Vanilla JS, none of that new fancy ES6 stuff. I was able to be comfortably effective with React-Native in about a month. On the first weekend, I had a usable sandbox/playground app compiling with hot-reloading enabled which sped learning along in a huge way.

We're a couple hundred hours into that project now, and I still find React Native to be a joy to work with.