As someone just getting into mobile development, I've enjoyed using it significantly more than native iOS/Android. It's so much faster and more straightforward to spin up designs,

Until your first update. I assume you didn’t work on anything that has been released?

The app was developed over a year ago and then came back to it for significant feature development.

The update wasn't terrible.

What happens when you do the first update? Have you used Expo?

Its not so bad. He is referring to RN updates, e.g. from 0.61.5 to 0.62

Its annoying, but I succeeded in upgrading in one project in about 1 hour. Just basically comparing the example code diff on github.

perhaps older version had more changes and weren't documented as well.

irrelevant comment: I hate Expo as it fails to be a helpful abstraction on top RN.

Update as in you application update or dependency update?

If you know native at the same level, RN is in now way faster.

I don’t know anyone that is equally proficient in Android and iOS development at any high level.

There were breaks for sure, but I worked in a shared-codebase web/native app using RN and React, and it was overall pretty pleasant. How early were you using it? It was actually pretty reliable.

Same experience with me. My company launched their RN app on iOS and Android and it was pretty successful and pleasant.

I tried RN for the first time (with a lot of React experience) a few weeks ago and I haven't noticed this. I don't use third party libraries though, maybe that was the source of your problems?

How long ago was this? Been doing RN since .58 and not had any issues like this unless you pay zero attention and use random dead packages a lot.

Yep agreed! 0.62 works flawlessly and the integration of Flipper standard on every project has been nice