Ask HN: Is it risky to use React-Native?

[dmitryame]

React-Native seems like a great solution for a new startup -- sharing codebase for iOS and Android is huge help addressing scarcity of resources.

Before starting a new project in React-Native, I'm wondering, how big of a risk that Apple will ban React-Native apps from their store in the future?

[Pako]

This isn't strictly related to React Native but have you considered using Flutter? IIRC it compiles to a "native" iOS app instead of doing this weird JS stuff React does.

[dmitryame]

BTW, never've heard of Flutter until you mentioned. Looking into it now. Looks cool, but... It's just been released? I do not want to depend on a bleeding edge solution when everything is at stake (I'm talking about a typical startup execution). I'd give it few more years before seriously considering it. I've seen the solutions that were supposed to take over the world (which never happened). SmallTalk, C++, JavaApplets, RubyOnRails. I'm sure I'm missing a few. While all these are very cool technologies, the "weird" JavaScript stuff is being the most used language in the world these days (whether we like it or not).

[dmitryame]

Flutter looks interesting, however, the same question applies to Flutter -- this is not a standard Apple's way, as such it may be banned. Why would not Apple decide to ban anything that is not Apple from their store?