How much code is shared with our website?

Realistically, the logic layer rather than the interface. API calls, validation rules, business logic, and types are worth sharing and we structure projects so they can be. Screens are better written for each platform, since the interaction models differ.

What happens when we need a native feature?

We write a native module in Swift or Kotlin and connect it to the JavaScript side. That covers hardware or SDKs without an existing package. It is normal on most projects, not a sign React Native was the wrong call.

Can we push updates without app store review?

For JavaScript changes, yes, which is useful for urgent fixes. Anything touching native code still needs a full release. Both Apple and Google set limits on what may be changed this way, so we set it up to stay inside their rules rather than around them.

Is React Native a safe long-term bet?

It is used in production by large consumer apps and has an active ecosystem behind it. The practical risks are dependency churn and upgrade debt rather than abandonment, and both are manageable when a project is kept reasonably current.

React Native
Development Agency

Stateside Digitals is a React Native development agency building iOS and Android apps from one codebase, so the React skills already on your team stretch across mobile instead of stopping at the browser.

React Native builds iOS and Android apps using React, the same library behind a large share of the modern web. The difference from web React is what it produces. Rather than rendering HTML into a browser, it renders each platform’s own native components, so a button on iOS is an actual iOS button instead of a convincing drawing of one.

For a business, the appeal is usually about people rather than pixels. If your web team already works in React, they are most of the way to building your mobile app, which shortens hiring and keeps one group accountable for both. That overlap, not a performance benchmark, is why most companies end up choosing React Native over the alternatives.

Real Native Components

Not A Drawn Imitation

Your app uses each platform’s own interface elements, so scrolling, keyboards, and accessibility behave the way users already expect.

One Skill, Two Targets

Web Developers Ship Mobile

React knowledge transfers directly, so hiring gets easier and the same people can move between your website and your app as needed.

Ship Fixes Without Review

Updates That Skip The Queue

Much of a React Native app can be updated over the air, letting you correct a bug in hours rather than waiting on a store review cycle.

Companion Apps To Web Products

Mobile versions of a platform you already run on the web, sharing logic and a backend so both stay consistent as features change.

Content and Social Apps

Feeds, messaging, and profile-driven products where the interface is mostly standard components and the real work sits in data, state, and keeping everything in sync.

Native App Additions

New screens added to an app you already ship natively, letting you modernize section by section without pausing the roadmap.

This is React Native’s main selling point, so it is worth stating honestly. A React web developer becomes productive in React Native quickly, because the language, the component model, and the way state flows are all the same. What is genuinely new is the platform underneath: navigation, permissions, notifications, store rules, and device testing.

So the answer is mostly yes on people and partly yes on code. Business logic, API calls, validation, and data models cross over cleanly. Interface code usually does not, because a browser window and a phone in someone’s hand are different problems. The teams that end up disappointed are the ones expecting to reuse an entire website inside an app.

We build on React Native’s New Architecture with TypeScript, using Expo where it speeds things up and a bare workflow where it would get in the way. Navigation is React Navigation, animation is Reanimated, and state is Redux Toolkit or Zustand depending on scale. Backends run on Node.js, Python, or Firebase, usually the same services already powering your web product.

React Native
TypeScript
JavaScript
Expo
React Navigation
Reanimated
Redux Toolkit
Swift
Kotlin
Node.js
Python
Firebase

New Architecture From Day One

Native Modules When Needed

Over-The-Air Update Setup

Upgrade Path Kept Clear

New projects start on the New Architecture with TypeScript, so you are not inheriting a codebase that already needs migrating.

Where no package exists, we write the Swift or Kotlin module and bridge it, rather than bending the product around what JavaScript can reach.

Over-the-air updates are configured to stay inside Apple and Google’s rules, so urgent JavaScript fixes ship in hours without risking the listing.

Dependencies and React Native versions are kept near current, which is what keeps an upgrade a scheduled task instead of a rescue.

New Architecture From Day One

Native Modules When Needed

Over-The-Air Update Setup

Upgrade Path Kept Clear

Largely, yes. The React part transfers immediately. What they will not have yet is experience with store submissions, device permissions, push notifications, and testing on real hardware. We often build alongside an in-house team and hand over from there.

React Native
Development Agency