react native can definitely ship production ready applications that large teams work on. bundler problems arent even react native related.. theyre webpack/babel etc. Package management? how is that related to RN?
Because you never have to deal with that stuff in mobile apps unless you use react native? So sure maybe it’s not directly react native’s fault but it is an issue.
This thread initially started by me comparing Svelte to React.
React uses webpack usually, RN uses metro usually, you can use esbuild, swc, etc for either though.
Svelte is a web tech, and thus uses web bundlers like webpack, thus has the same "faults", though I'm not sure what specifically is being critiqued.
When comparing RN to other cross platform solutions like Flutter you're wanting to compare it's package manager / bundler to Metro and the native dependency systems such as Cocoapods.
you will always have to manage dependencies somehow. Maybe you prefer the model used by flutter or something, thats preference. Its not a matter of whether of one is unsustainable or not. react native is fine for professional or hobby projects. even if you have problems with babel/webpack/etc bundle server (which btw can be worked around using inline bundling...)
