{"id":21945,"date":"2018-04-19T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/premier_developer\/?p=21945"},"modified":"2019-02-18T08:19:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:19:23","slug":"role-of-web-based-technologies-in-maximizing-code-sharing-in-your-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/role-of-web-based-technologies-in-maximizing-code-sharing-in-your-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Role of Web Based Technologies In Maximizing Code Sharing In Your Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Wael Kdouh<\/a> shares ideas of the alternatives to reduce web complexity and increase code sharing. He does a side-by-side comparison of Cordova\/Iconic, NativeScript, and React Native to help you explore some of your options to reduce complexity.<\/p>\n

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I was recently approached by a colleague of mine with the following question: “What are the available alternatives to reduce the current complexity of developing for multiple channels?”. In a nutshell he was looking for ways to maximize the amount of client code shared among iOS, Android and Web channels while still being able to use native mobile features if\/when needed. So here is the answer I shared with him which I thought would be beneficial for the wider community (not to mention that we love open sourcing everything here at Microsoft these days including our internal discussion threads).<\/p>\n

The first question I typically start with is \u201cWhat are they trying to build\u201d? For example if they require squeezing out every bit of performance then native will always come on top.<\/p>\n

The second question I ask is \u201cWhat is their developers\u2019 skillset\u201d? Now in this case they are coming from native development so they may be open to either C#\/XAML or JavaScript(or TypeScript)\/CSS\/html.<\/p>\n

The fact that he threw in the word web presence mixed with requirement for a consolidated code base makes the web sound like a viable option (we still need to address the two aforementioned questions). There are a lot of options with the web today (this could be a good thing or bad thing depending on how you look at it).<\/p>\n

Read more of Wael\u2019s post here<\/a> to explore these options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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