I just had my first encounter with React Native and it wasn't a good one. It's the typical JavaScript dependency hell where things blow up at run-time with cryptical errors and tons of people on SO / GitHub just saying "use a lower version", to get another error and reading "this is fixed in the latest version" which was the one I was just coming from.

This built on top of the iOS build system and everything is intertwined in both directions at least a few times. I've seen builds working starting the iOS app from command line, only to break _everything_ just starting the application from within Xcode. And Android? I didn't even look into it anymore.

I think they're at 0.57 or something and that version number just wants to tell you one thing: We're going to break your shit some more in the near future before the dust finally settles.