Dev teams at both Udacity and Airbnb began to use React Native in 2016, and both recently detailed why they are no longer using it, returning to a pure native approach for their Android and iOS apps. ...

Facebook found that initial principles of React Native—serving as a single asynchronous, serializable, and batched bridge between JavaScript and native apps—made it harder to build features.

It took the team of developers in New York just five months to develop the app—roughly half the time it would have taken had they not used React Native. React Native was created by Facebook to ...