From the course: Learning React Native

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How React Native works?

How React Native works?

From the course: Learning React Native

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How React Native works?

- [Instructor] I mentioned earlier that React Native doesn't work like other hybrid JavaScript frameworks that you may have used in the past. Let's take a look at why. In the past, Web apps were built using 100% JavaScript and WebViews. A WebView is a component that works like a mini web browser right within your application. This means in order to get JavaScript to work within your application, you had to have the entirety of WebKit installed, along with your codebase. And then your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript would all run in a single thread from that view. More often than not, the JavaScript and HTML could not keep up with the user interaction, and it would cause jumpy rendering, buggy components, and sometimes even crash the app. So even though you could program native applications using JavaScript, their quality would suffer to a point that it was better to simply use the native languages. React Native, on the…

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