React Native development
Mobile apps that map to genuine native components, written with the same skills as your web front end.
Cross-platform
Chosen per project
Maintainable handover
React Native’s strongest argument is organisational rather than technical: if your web application is built in React, the same developers can build and maintain the mobile app, and business logic can genuinely be shared between them.
It renders to real native components, so the app inherits each platform’s conventions by default — helpful when the app should feel like part of the operating system rather than a distinct brand world.
What we build with React Native
Companion apps to an existing React web application
Products where web and mobile share substantial business logic
Apps that should follow each platform’s native conventions
Teams already fluent in JavaScript and React
Where it fits — and where it does not
Good fit when
An existing React codebase and team
Shared validation and business logic across web and mobile
Standard interface patterns rather than heavy custom rendering
Over-the-air updates for JavaScript-only changes
Consider something else when
Graphics-intensive apps and games
Products needing pixel-identical rendering across both platforms
Teams with no JavaScript background
What is shared and what is not
The realistic split on a React Native project. Understanding it early prevents the common mistake of assuming a single codebase means no platform-specific work at all.
Shared across both platforms
Business logic and validation rules
API clients and data models
Most screen layouts and components
State management and navigation structure
Analytics and error reporting
Platform-specific
Push notification setup and permissions
Store submission, signing and review
Deep linking configuration
Some hardware and background behaviour
Platform interface conventions where they differ
How we work with React Native
Shared logic
Validation, types and API clients extracted into packages both web and mobile consume.
Navigation
A single navigation structure using the platform-standard patterns for each OS.
Native modules
Written where a capability has no maintained package, rather than forcing a poor fit.
Performance
List virtualisation and render profiling, which is where React Native apps most often struggle.
Our typical React Native setup
| Concern | What we use |
|---|---|
| Framework | React Native, or Expo where its managed workflow fits |
| Language | TypeScript across the codebase |
| Navigation | React Navigation with platform-appropriate patterns |
| State | The same approach as the web application where one exists |
| Testing | Jest with React Native Testing Library, plus device testing |
| Release | Store builds, with over-the-air updates for JavaScript changes |
Frequently asked questions
Business logic, validation, types and API clients can genuinely be shared. Interface components mostly cannot, because React Native uses its own primitives rather than HTML elements.
For typical business and consumer applications, yes. Performance problems usually come from unvirtualised long lists and unnecessary re-renders rather than the framework itself.
A mechanism to ship JavaScript-only changes directly to installed apps without a store review. Native code changes still require a normal store release.
Topics people search for
Services built with React Native
Mobile App Development
Apps built to be used daily — fast to open, sensible offline and maintainable once they are in the stores.
Web Application Development
Applications that run in the browser, handle real workloads and hold up when several departments depend on them at once.
API Development
The interfaces that let your systems talk to each other, and let partners build on top of what you have.
UI/UX Design
Interfaces designed around what people are trying to accomplish, then tested with them before development starts.
Tell us what you are trying to build
Describe the problem in plain language and we will tell you what it would take to solve it — the approach, the moving parts and the sensible order to build them in. No obligation either way.