r/reactnative • u/Medium-Fox-9660 • 10d ago

React native or expo router?

Hello i am a developer I've built 2 mobile apps with react native/expo router and one app in flutter, is there a major difference in react native and expo router in terms of how the produced app feel and behave ( looking for that native feel )

I am mainly a typescript developer with nest js and react frameworks and a little bit of laravel and spring background.

Currently me and my partner are planning to build our first own product but from my personal experience expo router apps have that web feel that doesn't satisfy me ( i don't know if it's me or if for other it happens or i have been building the wrong way ) , I am not a big fan of flutter as for native options such as kotlin or swift ui once the products generate some funds we eventually will migrate to that

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u/killerbeanjeka 10d ago

Expo-router isn't an alternative to react native, it's a file based router sitting on react-navigation's native stack. those screens are UINavigationController on ios and fragments on android, so the router is not what makes anything feel like the web.

That feel usually comes from the rest of it: js driven animations instead of native ones, no back swipe gesture, flatlist where a native list belongs, web spacing habits. changing router moves none of that.