Flutter: Will it take over react native?

What is flutter?

Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by google. It is used to develop cross-platform apps for IOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, and the web from a single codebase.

The programming language that flutter uses is called dart. It is a fairly easy language to pick up but there are not many resources available on the internet for people who are completely new to the world of programming.

Why flutter?

• Stability With its rendering engine, flutter apps are not affected by any OS update or system customization. They will still look the same in terms of the interface even after an IOS or Android system update.
• Code architecture The amount of nested objects in the flutter code does not affect the final performance and its responsiveness. It is because there are no recursive calls when processing the layout.
• Packages This is one of the best features of flutter which makes the work easy for the programmer. Packages in flutter are like chrome extensions that will help you in different situations, they are dependencies, dart libraries, resources. The pub.dev site lists many packages — developed by Google engineers and programmers from all over the world.

Flutter for app and web development?

Since the flutter code can be compiled into JavaScript, it is possible to have the same codebase(as per the developer preference) for Android, IOS, and the web version of an app.

React Native vs Flutter

Yes, react native is better than flutter because React Native developers are also React developers, and React happens to be the most popular front-end framework out there. But the speed with which flutter is improving, it will take over react native in no time for sure.

Thank you for reading this article.

P.S: This is my first ever article, looking forward to publishing more articles like this in the future.