Sort of tangential, but does anyone know of a good React Native app? Everything I've tried would clearly have been a better product if they'd just done native development. Like, you're sacrificing product quality for development ease.
The Android version is just RxJava, iirc, because of some performance issues they couldn't get around.
[0] https://blog.discordapp.com/using-react-native-one-year-late...
And according to their announcement post Litho is what they are using for their News Feed: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1187475984695956/open-sourci...
So the most critical part of the Facebook app isn't in React Native. How much of those other apps are actually using React Native?
Of course, with unlimited development capacity, for each React Native app there could be a better purely native app.
Another point also often forgotten is that the user experience of a React Native app, while not as 'platformy', will be very coherent for users of multiple platforms. That can also be considered as 'better', given you are such a user.