Differencebetween React Native and React

What is the difference between React Native and React?

ReactJS is a JavaScript library, supporting both front-end web and being run on a server, for building user interfaces and web applications. It follows the concept of reusable components.

React Native is a mobile framework that makes use of the JavaScript engine available on the host, allowing you to build mobile applications for different platforms (iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile) in JavaScript that allows you to use ReactJS to build reusable components and communicate with native components further explanation

Both follow the JSX syntax extension of JavaScript. Which compiles to React.createElement calls under the hood. JSX in-depth

Both are open-sourced by Facebook.

What is the difference between React, ReactJS, and React Native?

React and React.Js is one and the same.

React / ReactJs

ReactJS is an open-source JavaScript library used to build the user interface for Web Applications. It is responsible only for the view layer of the application. It provides developers to compose complex UIs from a small and isolated piece of code called "components." ReactJS made of two parts first is components, that are the pieces that contain HTML code and what you want to see in the user interface, and the second one is HTML document where all your components will be rendered.

React Native

React Native is an open-source JavaScript framework used for developing a mobile application for iOS Android, and Windows. It uses only JavaScript to build a cross-platform mobile app. React Native is same as React, but it uses native components instead of using web components as building blocks. It targets mobile platforms rather than the browser.

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What is the best one of them to study ?

React and React native both solves different kind of problem. React is common library between react and react-native which provides supports for hooks and generate virtual dom.

react-dom will render content on web using virtual dom created by react.

However on other side react-native will create bundle for android and iOS.

Difference between React and React Native

As one of React guy, I want to suggest some tips on react world.

React native is mobile development framework which is supported by facebook, and you can start by using RN tutorial - https://reactnative.dev/docs/getting-started.

React.js is web development library which is using by Javascript or Typescript.
You can start by looking at React doc - https://reactjs.org/docs/getting-started.html.

I know you were in other tech world, but if you spend some time on them, you can be familiar soon.

What is the difference between React Native and React?

ReactJS is a JavaScript library, supporting both front-end web and being run on a server, for building user interfaces and web applications. It follows the concept of reusable components.

React Native is a mobile framework that makes use of the JavaScript engine available on the host, allowing you to build mobile applications for different platforms (iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile) in JavaScript that allows you to use ReactJS to build reusable components and communicate with native components further explanation

Both follow the JSX syntax extension of JavaScript. Which compiles to React.createElement calls under the hood. JSX in-depth

Both are open-sourced by Facebook.

What's the main difference between react-native and react-dom

You can't actually build web apps with React Native. You can use react-native-web for that, which implements React Native APIs on top of react-dom and browser APIs, but is not the same thing as React Native and doesn't use React Native.

What is the difference between React Native and React?

ReactJS is a JavaScript library, supporting both front-end web and being run on a server, for building user interfaces and web applications. It follows the concept of reusable components.

React Native is a mobile framework that makes use of the JavaScript engine available on the host, allowing you to build mobile applications for different platforms (iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile) in JavaScript that allows you to use ReactJS to build reusable components and communicate with native components further explanation

Both follow the JSX syntax extension of JavaScript. Which compiles to React.createElement calls under the hood. JSX in-depth

Both are open-sourced by Facebook.

Is Redux the same for React and React native?

React Native contains React library to use it as front-end library.

Most of usages of React are the same for React-Native. And it is same for Redux too.

React-Native must have other libraries to build applications that can run on both of Android and iOS.

Also it has middleware libraries that allow us to use most of native libraries' functionalities. As an example you can check Alert directory out. It is used for to show native Android alert dialogs.

Good luck..

React-Native-Web vs ReactJS

To be honest the reasoning for using react-native-web are somewhat aesthetic, take this for example:

React Native is a pure UI language. It defines some base components
that define UI primitives, and those are thought to be independent of
the platform that runs them. All the components we can create in React
Native is based on primitives like View, Text, or Image, which
are basic elements that make sense to any visual interface, no matter
where it is run.

On the other hand, React’s primitives are just DOM nodes — HTML tags
like div, p, or a, which are not pure UI. They weren’t created to
define a visual language; rather, they’re meant to structure and make
sense of the hypertext. React’s primitives have meaning beyond the
interface, and that meaning doesn’t make much sense outside of
browsers.

which is taken from here. I developed both ReactJs and RN applications and websites and the only true benefit that I can see is the unified coding language. Since I started with RN and then added ReactJS to my resume, I found it a pain in the butt to find the equivalent of RN components in ReactJs, oh I should use p and span instead of Text?, oh shoot it is 'input type="text"' not 'TextInput' etc etc. I think you get my point. Probably it is same for React developers who came into RN world. But it comes with its cons too and unfortunately using react-native-web need some hassles and you have to PREPARE your project for it.

thanks for your explanation. Could you please be more specific and
provide more details or examples for the "some hassles"? thanks!

For example React-Native (and some its libraries) are based upon Promise framework which is not normal JS, or Object.assign is added ES6, in order to use them you have to modify webpack.config.js and .bael-rc files add multiple lines inside those files. If you are using other helper tools like Flow or Jest or etc they had to be configured too. It sure slows you down at start but if you dedicate the time to set things up it pays of in long run.

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