Hi /r/reactnative!

My startup recently got some funding (wohoo!) and I wanted to get your opinion about our use case for RN. I have already built the iOS app in native swift and the codebase is pretty big at this point (10 months full time + 1 year after work). We also have an Android app that was built natively (Java) but is far behind the iOS app. I need help deciding if we should rewrite the Android app (with potential for a web app) in React Native. As this is our first round of funding we will only have enough money to be able to hire one L4 or L5 developer for ~1.5 years. So far, here are the pros and cons I can come up with for choosing RN after doing quite a bit research online and creating a quick test app.

Pros

• Faster to develop
• (Hopefully) cheaper to develop
• Can develop for web and Android at the same time
• Can eventually replace the iOS app (if we go with RN I plan to continue to develop the iOS app until the RN app can replace the iOS app)
• We are using JS on the backend as well, so developers can more easily hop across the entire stack

Cons

• Harder to find developers, particularly developers at the senior level
• Have to rely on a single third party (RN) for a large part of our core business
• There will be way more third party dependencies
• Potential performance issues & the UX might not be as smooth as native
• Probably will run into minor issues that are a pain in the ass to debug
• Bigger app size & memory footprint
• Far less community support than native
• In the long term (3-5+ years), RN has the potential to be a huge burden to the business
• I've read communicating over the bridge should be avoided. If I wanted to build a portion of the app in native on each platform for performance reasons it might be challenging.

Thanks for reading, and I would love to hear your thoughts.