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Interesting. React is the thing. But some trends are weird:

People ditch Cordova heavily, but also React Native and native apps. Electron rises to the top, although you can't build mobile apps with it that are distributed through the various stores.

So, what's filling the void for app development, if everything just went down?

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Have the same question. Seems like most web mobile frameworks break when you need anything advanced.

I've been hiring Java and Swift devs for my shop after a really poor experience with React Native. Hoping that changes soon, but it seems unlikely given how infantile Electron is still.

I think it's just because "Mobile & Desktop" are grouped together. React Native is still number two in the list, so if they were separated out, you'd have Electron rising to the top on desktop, and React Native staying at the top on mobile.

Flutter.

Definitely Flutter. It's pretty easy for JS devs to work with Dart, and the Flutter architecture is basically like React - component-based (called widgets in Flutter) + RxJS (Streams and RxDart).

People are just writing native apps as far as I can tell. Swift and Kotlin are pretty pleasant to work with. React is brilliant on the web but RN is a bit of a shit show IMO.

Maybe Ionic with Capacitor?

Nah, Ionic goes down as well for whatever reason. I'm still all in on Stencil + Ionic/Core + Capacitor.

Maybe people use NativeScript, I don't know. Just found it interesting that the trend seems to go down for ALL mobile development tools.

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