How does Flutter compare to React Native in 2020?

Thibaut
6 min readFeb 20, 2020

In recent years, mobile development has been marked by the rise of multi-platform technologies such as Xamarin, Ionic, Angular, native React and Flutter. The goal is to code only once to make an application that will be available for iOS, Android, Web, see Windows 10.

The popularity of React on the Web has made React Native a very popular solution for cross-platform development. Recently, it is Flutter, pushed by Google, that is making a lot of talk about it. Let’s take a look at these two technologies…

Maturity for Mobile Development

React native is an older technology from React, which is currently the most popular web development framework. It is a mature technology.

Flutter is a very recent technology that is growing very fast. It is Google’s multi-platform front-end development technology.

Below are the search trends with React Native in red and Flutter in blue.

Maturity for Web Development

React, in Yellow, is by far the most mature technology for web development, as the current leader in this…

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