React Native vs NativeScript

React Native and NativeScript have changed the multi-platform development paradigm, allowing developers to create both performant and user-friendly applications. Since then, they’ve been gaining fans and contributors from all over the world, facilitating the app's development process and making it easy, cheap, and enjoyable.

Despite both platforms’ aim to create cross-platform apps, they have several distinct features and major differences on several layers.

Learning curve

React Native has a more smooth learning curve while NativeScript is positively abrupt in the beginning. Eventually, the learning curve of NativeScript becomes more beneficial later.?

Community

React Native is more popular among developers than NativeScript and has a large developer community.

Performance

React Native performs better than NativeScript due to its multi-threaded system and Virtual DOM usage. At the same time, both platforms have equal code-sharing capabilities.

Application field

React Native works with more (macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, Apple tvOS) platforms than NativeScript (iOS, Android, and Windows) at the moment.

Testing

React Native has more convenient testing automation and gives more freedom of choice concerning testing tools.

When choosing between NativeScript and React Native, keep in mind that in the course of developing your application, you might come across a need for some native-language tweaks to maximize the performance and user experience of apps for a specific platform—especially when you’re building a robust, feature-heavy application.