Other than the popular ReactNative (with react-native-web) and NativeScript (with angular-part that can be reused), there are ReactXP (Microsoft), is a fork of ReactNative (Facebook), with some extras: TypeScript (future proposed ES7 with better tooling), single codebase for all common platform: Android, iOS, Web, and Windows.
To use them, you should clone their repository, and use the provided Hello World.
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/reactxp
cp -r reactxp/samples/hello-world rxp1
cd rxp1
npm install
npm run web-watch # or rn-watch for mobile
Open index.html using browser, preferably use a web server instead of file:// protocol. Install ReactDevTools for better debugging experience. The directories should show something like this:
├── android
│ ├── app
│ ├── build.gradle
│ ├── gradle
│ ├── gradle.properties
│ ├── gradlew
│ ├── gradlew.bat
│ ├── keystores
│ └── settings.gradle
├── index.android.js
├── index.html # <-- the main code for web
├── index.ios.js
├── ios
│ ├── RXPHelloWorld
│ ├── RXPHelloWorldTests
│ └── RXPHelloWorld.xcodeproj
├── node_modules
├── package.json
├── README.md
├── src # <-- your common source code / components here
│ ├── App.tsx
│ ├── index.tsx
│ ├── ToggleSwitch.tsx
│ └── typings
├── tsconfig.json
└── webpack.config.ts
Now you can edit the App.tsx and start digging, but probably you'll need to wait around end of this year, until it has more features.
Next are the Cordova-based (that would be slower than native since it's browser based, also user on the older devices that has buggy 1 probably need to install last version of CrossWalk), there are:
Haven't tried them all, but..
Btw have you heard PWA (youtube)?
Note: this article written in 26th April 2017, scheduled to be published at 1st June 2017, probably things have change since then.
Also note that I didn't include other cross platform mobile-only development alternative or ones that specialized for gaming or must-pay, such as Xamarin/Unity3D, Cocos2D, RemObject's Silver, etc
Next are the Cordova-based (that would be slower than native since it's browser based, also user on the older devices that has buggy 1 probably need to install last version of CrossWalk), there are:
- the infmaous Ionic (the most mature of all, also support windows, electron-based and chrome-app) also it has paid drag-and-drop gui designer (Ionic Creator),
- Phonon (can be used with RiotJS),
- Quasar Framework (can be used with VueJS),
- Intel XDK,
- Framework7 (can be used with VueJS or React),
- OnsenUI (can be used with VueJS, React, Angular 1/2 or Meteor)
Haven't tried them all, but..
- by skimming the specs and the docs (that i prefer ones that not focusing on mobile-only),
- and since I dislike Angular (sorry Google),
- not really into React (and whatever state management libraries available: Flux, AltJS, Redux, MobX, Cerebral),
- prefer to use RiotJS > VueJS (since I think they take the good parts of Angular and React)
- not really like write in Typescript (but I like using libraries that written in Typescript ^^ because parameter info/object-property checking is quite helpful on development),
Btw have you heard PWA (youtube)?
Note: this article written in 26th April 2017, scheduled to be published at 1st June 2017, probably things have change since then.
| Github Stat Apr 2017 | Watch | Star | Fork |
| ReactNative | 2.9 | 47.5 | 11.0 |
| Weex | 1.9 | 14.0 | 1.9 |
| Ionic | 1.7 | 29.2 | 7.4 |
| NativeScript | 0.6 | 10.0 | 0.7 |
| Framework7 | 0.5 | 9.5 | 2.0 |
| OnsenUI | 0.2 | 4.6 | 0.6 |
| ReactXP | 0.2 | 4.4 | 0.2 |
| IncubatorWeex | 0.1 | 2.2 | 0.3 |
| Quasar | 0.1 | 1.9 | 0.1 |
| Phonon | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| React | 4.4 | 65.3 | 12.1 |
| Angular | 4.4 | 55.5 | 27.7 |
| Vue | 2.9 | 51.5 | 6.89 |
| Riot | 0.4 | 11.8 | 0.9 |
| Mithril | 0.3 | 7.5 | 0.6 |
Also note that I didn't include other cross platform mobile-only development alternative or ones that specialized for gaming or must-pay, such as Xamarin/Unity3D, Cocos2D, RemObject's Silver, etc
