React Native is best understood as an insurgent attack on native mobile platforms, funded by overwealthy and bloated companies that do not control mobile platforms, but feel entitled.
Microsoft and Facebook attacking Apple and Google basically.
IMHO it's not a sincere effort to make a nice platform. It moves fast and breaks things in major ways with each minor point release, with the current excuse being that it's not at 1.0 yet. But it offers just enough to introduce FUD into the competitors' ecosystems. And that's the entire goal as far as I can tell.
If you value getting useful deep knowledge, stay away. If you want to play in the shallows and be patching stuff up all the time with JavaScript/TypeScript, React Native is an option.
They have lots of money but without carrying the cost of maintaining an active hardware product line. Unless you count Oculus for Facebook and a few minor things for Microsoft but those are in the noise.
Microsoft and Facebook attacking Apple and Google basically.
IMHO it's not a sincere effort to make a nice platform. It moves fast and breaks things in major ways with each minor point release, with the current excuse being that it's not at 1.0 yet. But it offers just enough to introduce FUD into the competitors' ecosystems. And that's the entire goal as far as I can tell.
If you value getting useful deep knowledge, stay away. If you want to play in the shallows and be patching stuff up all the time with JavaScript/TypeScript, React Native is an option.