React Native might look a web-based kind of toolkit but it's not. It supports a HTMLish layout system based on Flexbox, but it's its own native compositing and layout framework. It circumvents the HTML layouting middle layer and a browser layer. It doesn't need any virtual DOM, for example.
While it might sound redundant, it's more about making UI layout simpler, faster, and all in all more "native".
There's already plenty of browser view-based layout frameworks, and in general they run into the same limitations (performance, lack of native components, etc). This is an alternative solution to that. Think of it as a middle ground between Xamarin and Phonegap.
While it might sound redundant, it's more about making UI layout simpler, faster, and all in all more "native".
There's already plenty of browser view-based layout frameworks, and in general they run into the same limitations (performance, lack of native components, etc). This is an alternative solution to that. Think of it as a middle ground between Xamarin and Phonegap.