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Ask HN: React Native or Flutter when the back end is Node?

4•rearview•3h ago
Really confused between React Native and Flutter. I’ve mostly worked with Flutter and a little bit with React Native, but that was quite a while back, so I’m not sure how things stand today.

I’m building a project with a Node.js + tRPC backend, so React Native is looking really tempting cause of that Typescript.

While researching I've seen mixed reviews about performance in React Native like people saying they've spend weeks finding and managing performance issue which does makes me worry.

The app I wanna build doesn't have complex canvas work or crazy animations. For a typical production app, what’s the performance situation with React Native vs Flutter now? Are there any major concerns which I should know before looking in React Native?

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verdverm•3h ago
If you aren't doing native apps, my recommendation is to use the same language across full-stack apps. You can share things like zod types and validation logic (in the frontend for quicker user feedback, on the backend because you never trust user provided values)
rearview•3h ago
That's why it looks so tempting but the main reason having mixed feelings because of reviews everywhere about React Native that it's doesn't have that kind of performance! And yeah zod and tRPC is a lovely combo for building app loving it with Next.JS
verdverm•3h ago
There are a lot of React Native apps out there, the issues I see are more around platform glitchiness or workarounds than performance.

The main thing to watch out for is blocking the rendering or event loop. I've definitely seen apps where a slow API call blocks everything else. So less about performance and more about knowing how to do concurrency well.

rearview•3h ago
absolutely! got any tips that I should be using while working on it :)
verdverm•3h ago
let the agents debug these things, without needing images, the feedback loop is key

I haven't done any mobile stuff in a while, but there should be enough around to wire the agents up into a good environment, like remote chrome-devtools (with or without the MCP).

pnpm workspaces, makes having multiple packages with internal dependencies (like core and components) easy to manage in the dev workspace

sync•3h ago
I have a similar stack (using oRPC instead of tRPC, recommended!) and I'd say React Native, specifically Expo UI: https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/ui/

This will get you the most native feel across all platforms (e.g. Liquid Glass) and keeps you in one language (TypeScript).

No performance issues to note in particular because Expo UI is (basically) native - it just uses SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose under the hood.

rearview•3h ago
what about app size and ram usage like heard bad review about that. I just wanna be sure before I start like real sure :)
runningmike•3h ago
It depends do you want to maintain ii? Do you use AI? Performance issues can always be solved. Do you want to use browser’s capabilities or keep control in your own backend ? Less frameworks is better, use e.g the same for everything.