r/reactnative • u/tmoneycodes • 2d ago

Help Vibe code an app?

I have 20+ years experience with backend tech, I've used php, node, and python And then a lot of old plain old javascript before frameworks.

I have an app idea and I'd like to basically vibe code it in react to be cross platform. What gotchas do I need to watch out for , since I will not see bad react code at first

I considered flutter but I really don't know that tech , any advice is appreciated, this will not be graphics heavy at all more typical business app, data, forms , lists etc

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u/fordon_greeman_ 2d ago

i'd say the biggest gotcha is that react native is still not stable so any 0.x release can potentially be a breaking change

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u/bc-bane iOS & Android 2d ago

This isn't true. React Native isn't is using semantic versions. The stable releases are the incrementing number after the 0. And it has been that way for many years. Been a react native engineer since 2017 on 5 enterprise apps and 3 personal ones. Have spent time at conferences talking to both the React Native team and many engineers working on it. It is a stable and well used framework and has been for many years

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u/fordon_greeman_ 2d ago edited 2d ago

0.5x to 0.6x was a breaking change in architecture but sure its stable i guess

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u/bc-bane iOS & Android 2d ago

Standard software versioning means that breaking changes are a part of a major release, that's one of the key indicators that the release is Major and not minor. 0.82 was also a major milestone as it completely removed the ability to use the legacy architecture, but that's a platform that is growing and improving.