[buliam]

I can’t speak to why React Native was recommended to you specifically, but here are some reasons I think speak for React Native and which I’ve also heard from other people (for example those who I’ve interviewed on my site http://madewithreactnative.com)

* Web devs can hit the ground running, more or less without having to learn a new language.

* One code base for both Android and iOS without having to write any native code (Theoretically. For some things, you still can’t get around native code), which leads to

* Shorter development times for apps for both platforms.

* For apps, which are basically just presentation layers for data fetched from server, performance is fine.

* Huge community with a lot of packages and libraries, especially because you can also use many node packages without any problems.