Using React Native to deploy to different platforms

In this section, you’ll learn how to set up your React Native project to be able to support multiple platforms. Since it is the most common use case, we’ll focus a lot on the web here, but the tips and approaches of these sections are also applicable to other platforms such as desktops and TVs.

When creating an application for multiple platforms, there are always two goals. First, you want to support as many platform-specific features as possible and want to give users the look and feel they are used to on this platform. Second, you try to have as much shared code as possible because this makes it easier to maintain and develop your application.

At first sight, these goals seem to be concurrent but there are intelligent ways to get the best of both worlds. Let’s start with the simplest approach.

Using react-native-web to create a clone for web

When creating your application with React Native, you can...