React Developer Reviews Flutter — Better Than React?

After web development with plain CSS and JS, using Dart and opinionated widgets is really great for me. It’s giving me stronger mental models about how to do it well, as a self-taught developer

Great video, although I think the critique of being too opinionated and telling what you can and can't do is not really valid, the way I see it is that Flutter gives you a choice, like you said with Flutter you get a lot more prebuilt widgets out of the box that are highly customizable but it doesn't force you to use those, you can build your own custom widgets instead with basic stuff like Containers which is essentially a div in React and custom painters and shaders and so on if that's your thing....

since I worked using react native around 5+ years, RN was more painful to maintenance, example when new version of RN is out and we need to upgrade it. but flutter made more painless. And development experience is better for flutter because data type more clear than TS on React Native

Note that unlike CSS, you can also raw dog the layout and just implement it in Dart completely when necessary. I've done that for a complicated toolbar where when the container is shrinking, the search field had to shrink up to a certain point, then hide a few buttons to gain more space, and then if it's even too narrow for that hide the search field as well. When the search field is in focus, it had to expand even more and hide other things instead. While I think that this would be possible in CSS in some way, it's way easier to implement in plain Dart due to having regular branches and comparators. The function just gets the container min/max size as input and it sets the children's positions and sizes.

I love the idea of you todo app! I'm a bit mindblown, so simple yet so cool!

Download the app here: todewy.notion.site/Todewy-Invites-b48741dc39ad4f6c… Also join the discord to leave feedback/suggestions about the app: discord.gg/eX7mqsgYHC

Waouh I really like the idea of the app. I think it's pretty cool the functionality of taking a picture to complete a task and the update to come where you can follow your friends is also quite cool Look forward to the app

Your to-do app is actually really cool sounding!

Great Video! I would try out flutter too!

cross platform vs native which one is better

Looking for a lot more Flutter videos on your channel.

Awesome work, but you lack a lot on UI/UX I know this is something as a developer we don't pay much attention to but this is your current weakness just pointing it out

I think flutter is really the 'Unity' of app development. It's very simple to use with pre-made widgets that are customisable but to a limited extent compared with React Native.

I hope the flutter community grow faster and bigger, there's potential in there.

guys what should I do, kotlin, flutter, react-native or swift. I am very beginner to this

I struggle with the set up for eslint and prettier for a long time before I see anything on screen when developing in React Native. But flutter is much more straight forward and has a cool widget tree component display where you can just navigate to them.

The dart support in vscode is much better than c#.

Flutter is definitely not explicitly, you have total freedom

A better comparison would be Flutter vs a React component library

How do you think it compares to Swift and Kotlin? I definitely see how it's competitive with other cross-platform development platforms but I don't think it's going to replace native development platforms anytime soon.