React and it's model are great. React Native on the other hand is leaky, heavy and you'll spend a bunch of time fiddling with packages, upgrading them, tracking down weird linking issues and ultimately writing some Objective-C / Java code to debug / glue / fix whatever native API you're dealing with. Thats only from my experience though. I would much rather the Compose / SwiftUI direction.

This is exactly my experience too. It’s an absolute nightmare juggling three package managers at once.

I had a similar experience.

I was also frustrated by the Redux stack, which was odd because I quite like it on web. But in RN, I kept thinking over to how networking and data work in Cocoa Touch and Swift and wondering why we were building these byzantine solutions to problems that iOS already had built-in, elegant solutions for.

Now I’m digging in to SwiftUI, which seems to take best from AppKit and React... I don’t think I’ll be doing another RN project.