Show HN: We built a social fitness app in React Native for iOS and Android

squidfitness.com

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Hey everyone! We built Squid for iOS and Android using React Native. We originally used Parse as a backend but then rolled our own nodejs/express/mysql backend on AWS after Parse announced their shutdown. Happy to answer any questions and hope you like it. Also, we just shared this on Product Hunt so would really appreciate the support. Thanks!

hello! why did you choose to develop using React Native?

I've been using ReactJS for a long time and thought this would be a good opportunity to try out React Native. I found that I was able to iterate and release on both platforms very quickly with RN. Also, since it's a social network at its core, we wanted to support both platforms from the start to allow for more adoption.

I've come to love React Native. It has been very easy to get started, increase app complexity while keeping code clean and simple, and building the occasional bindings in Obj-C and Java was very straight-forward. I definitely recommend giving RN a shot!

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