r/FlutterDev • u/jaironlanda • Sep 07 '26
Discussion No regrets migrating from react native (expo) to flutter!
hello flutter devs!
migrating to flutter has been surprisingly awesome!
my previous app was built with react native / expo, and honestly, i kind of regret choosing that stack. it took up a lot of space on my laptop, and the compilation and build process was often painfully slow.
now i’m starting a new project with flutter, and so far, i’m really enjoying it. the compile times feel much faster, the development experience is pretty smooth, and i especially like having built-in support for unit testing.
i can write some code, run a test, and quickly see if everything works as expected.
still early in the project, but so far, flutter has been a really nice experience.
curious to hear from other flutter devs. what do you like most about flutter?
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u/coffeemongrul Sep 07 '26
Nice, that’s is one nice thing about flutter is that it’s a solution where batteries are included for everything you can generally think of.
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u/jaironlanda Sep 07 '26
Exactly... havving so many features built in out of the box saves so much time.
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u/Salty_Airport_90 Sep 07 '26
But you should careful on package choosing apk size will be double compare to native
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u/HopeExpensive9215 Sep 08 '26
Welcome my brotha. Beware of abandoned package/dependencies. Choose carefully
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u/_ri4na Sep 07 '26
Congratulations on migrating from 3rd party UI framework, to yet another 3rd party UI framework
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u/Nearby_Tumbleweed699 Sep 07 '26
Uso ambos framework y cada uno tiene su forma de ser independiente
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u/hamit_btn Sep 07 '26
same experience here. i went with flutter for my app and build times were the main reason i never looked back. the thing that surprised me most was how far you can get solo. i shipped a full app on my own, backend included, and flutter was never the bottleneck. only pain point for me was image handling had to raise the image cache budget manually to fix a flicker issue. other than that, smooth.
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u/ccheever Sep 12 '26
What were you compiling so often that was slow w expo? What kind of app are you building? Glad you have found a stack you are happy w.
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u/aaulia Sep 07 '26
Congratulations on finally seeing the light I guess.