React Native vs Lynx JS

What’s the difference between Lynx and React Native?

I think a few key differences can help delineate the two technologies.

Lynx Architecture:

Lynx has a highly performant Rust-based engine. If you’re a Rust fan, you’ll be at home with its Rust-based tools. This architecture allows for a fantastic speed boost natively.

Lynx also has a Dual-Threaded Execution that separates UI and heavy computation into different threads. The rendering is direct to native, which skips React’s Virtual DOM.

React Native Architecture:

React Native architecture depends on how old your React Native project is. While the JavaScript bridge constricted the original, the new architecture communicates with a bridgeless layer that removes this latency and allows synchronous calls between JS and C++, Swift, Kotlin, and any other host language.

Recently, React Native has employed a new UI layer (Fabric), on-demand native modules (TurboModules), and concurrent rendering (via React 18 & Suspense).

Lynx Styling and Development Experience:

Lynx offers genuine CSS styling capabilities. It supports animations, transitions, and selectors. This styling works well with existing web developers.

React Native Styling and Development Experience:

React Native styling is constricted by a subset of CSS to provide a unified experience across multiple platforms, from Windows to AppleTV to iOS/Android. You’re more constrained in React Native.

Lynx Web Integration:

Lynx promises seamless web integration like Flutter did (but we saw how that went for Flutter). This offers a single codebase that shares logic/coding for small and large devices.

React Native Web Integration:

React Native requires you to support the Web as a platform. While you can share the code between each, it’s not out-of-the-box support. You’ll need to support it with a library like react-native-web.

Lynx Flexibility:

Lynx ships with ReactLynx (“React on Lynx”) as the initial front-end framework, but it’s designed to be framework-agnostic. This opens the door to opportunities with popular frameworks like Vue.js or even Angular. Will those frameworks happen? That’s yet to be seen.

React Native Flexibility:

React Native works on plenty of platforms. While Meta is the main contributor, release meetings include Microsoft and Amazon employees, who have invested heavily in the library for their unified experiences across many devices. React Native will always be React code working on top of Native Swift/Kotlin/C++, but it works on many platforms.

Conclusion:

If you are a startup or a Fortune 100, React Native is the go-to way to build a scalable app that shares code across platforms. Your team can jump in from any background and get started shipping.

We know React Native has a dedicated team from various companies who have placed their entire Mobile presence on React Native’s success.