What it is
React Native is our default choice when a client needs an iOS and Android app but only has a web React team available. The framework renders native UI components rather than WebViews, which means the app performs and feels like a native build without requiring separate Swift or Kotlin expertise. WebGrow24 uses React Native for cross-platform apps where time-to-market and code sharing between web and mobile are more important than pixel-perfect custom UI that diverges significantly from platform conventions. The JSX component model maps directly to what our React engineers already know, and libraries like React Navigation, Zustand for state management, and Tanstack Query for async data cover the patterns we need without reinventing them. Indian SMBs benefit from React Native's mature ecosystem of pre-built components for everything from date pickers to charts, which reduces the cost of building for two platforms simultaneously. The trade-offs are worth knowing: apps built with React Native tend to be larger than their native counterparts, and features requiring deep platform integration—advanced push notifications, Bluetooth Low Energy, ARKit—sometimes need native modules written by an iOS or Android specialist. Choose React Native when you have a web team that can own the mobile codebase, when the app's core value is in the business logic rather than the UI chrome, or when an MVP needs to validate across both platforms before committing to native development.
Use cases
- Cross-platform iOS and Android apps with shared code
- Internal business tools and field worker apps
- MVP mobile apps validating a product idea quickly
- E-commerce apps with product catalogues and checkout flows
- Customer-facing apps with account management and notifications
- Apps requiring real-time data like delivery or booking tracking
- Apps that need to share code with an existing React web dashboard
- Apps for Indian rural or tier-2 markets where app size and offline support matter
Integration patterns
Common integrations WebGrow24 connects with React Native:
- Expo (managed workflow for faster builds and easier deployments)
- React Navigation (routing and native navigation patterns)
- Zustand (lightweight state management for shared UI state)
- Tanstack Query (async data fetching with caching and synchronisation)
- Firebase (push notifications, crashlytics, and authentication)
- Stripe (in-app payments and subscriptions)
- AWS Amplify (backend APIs, auth, and storage)
- React Native Maps (location and map integrations)
- Shopify (headless commerce for mobile storefronts)
- Segment (event tracking and analytics pipeline)
- Fastlane (automated build and release pipelines)