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Flutter vs React Native. How to Cover All Mobile Platforms in 2022 With No Hassle

Mobile app development is a must for any business that pursues top-notch customer experience. When we hear about a new exciting product or service appearance, in most cases, we won’t ask ourselves whether the company provides mobile app support or not. Instead, we grub our smartphones, always at hand, to decide if a new app is worthy of becoming our day-to-day companion. The current state of technology frees us from the need to reinvent the wheel. There’s no more need to hire several teams to build mobile apps for different platforms since the cross-platform approach helps erase the difference between them. Today, we will look at Flutter and React Native to decide who outplays who in terms of community, performance, and other factors.

Who Is Who in the World of Cross-platform Development

Flutter is Google’s invention. One of the main distinctive features of Flutter enables programmers to use the same code base for creating an app that will work in browsers and on mobile devices. So if you're on a tight budget and want to cut costs of reaching both mobile and web users, it can be a decent choice.

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Old Habits Die Hard, But Getting New Ones is Essential. Tips on Getting the Most Out of TypeScript

In web development, no one is surprised when a new framework or library enters the stage. Implementing complex functionalities and creating UI elements from scratch only using the powers of a specific programming language is not always the most optimal way. Instead, developers either rely on the existing frameworks or create their own for internal use. In the case of programming languages, the situation is a little more complicated.

A fairly large number of coders are unhappy with the limitations of the programming language that they use every day. Therefore, from time to time, we can hear about the new programming language release. The question is, will the development community adopt it as a replacement for well-established technologies? As an example, we can take a look at Dart. It was initially released in 2011 but remained quite unpopular until the Flutter framework was launched in 2017.

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Node.js vs. PHP: Modernity vs. Tradition

For many years, both PHP and JavaScript have been on top of web development technologies popularity lists. These languages have a large audience, there's no shortage of developers using them daily, and the number of projects implemented with their use is uncountable. Besides, there are dozens of pretty popular frameworks that allow developers to make more with less coding, such as Laravel (PHP) or React (JS), for example.

The thing is, PHP and JS are often considered phenomena from different worlds. JS is often seen as a tool exclusively for creating the frontend part of the web application and implementing user interaction functionality. PHP, in its turn, is a server scripting language that steers everything related to the back-end. However, there's a scenario where JS and PHP can compete in the same field. Node.js is a JavaScript framework that enables executing JS code on the server, making it an alternative to PHP. Today, we'll consider both these technologies' main pros and cons and the types of projects they will better suit.

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What You See vs What’s Going On Under the Hood – Setting Development Priorities

The question of what came first, the egg or the chicken, haunts humankind for many centuries. From a software company client's standpoint, there's another essential rivalry requiring due diligence: should a software product start with front-end or back-end development? It goes without saying that both these parts of the web application are vital and require due attention during design, coding, and testing. 

The thing is that deciding which of them requires number one priority may be tricky sometimes. This article will consider the main reasons determining whether developers should focus first on the front-end or the back-end part of the app development process.