React Native components communicate directly with the native platform, which give it a closer look and feel on a mobile device than a PWA (or any kind of web app) ever will.

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Yes. This. I tried everything I found that didn’t require reinventing NDK. React native gets really close to the metal; you can always go down to implement what you need in C++, the new architecture stuff makes a significant difference because now you can write native code and not pay an overhead payload penality with serialization/deserialization when you write to the UI.

It’s really annoying and far slower than web development though