---
title: "Ionic vs. React Native: Performance Comparison"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/ionic-vs-react-native-performance-comparison-utlrrtr1l
source_url: https://ionicframework.com/blog/ionic-vs-react-native-performance-comparison/
type: article
source: "Ionic Blog"
author: "Conner Simmons"
published: 2022-03-23T17:04:46.890Z
updated: 2022-03-24T15:49:54.570Z
tags: ["react", "javascript", "react-native", "ionic"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 28
comments: 5
language: en
---

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# Ionic vs. React Native: Performance Comparison

**[Ionic Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ionic)** · [@connersimmons](https://daily.dev/connersimmons) · 7 min read · 28 upvotes · 5 comments

## Summary

Ionic and React Native compete in the cross-platform application development ecosystem. The two are different in terms of their approach and underlying architecture. Ionic fully subscribes to the philosophy of leveraging web technologies to deliver its applications. React Native also runs using JavaScript (JS), but does so under the guise of orchestrating platform-specific user interface (UI) controls.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@keen** · 1 upvotes

> Hope thay make a comparison with Flutter

**@kkurko** · 1 upvotes

> Like it, will take a better look at Ionic after this article. I have a couple of project (MVP) running with React Native, but right now I will keep Ionic in mind

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Tags: [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#react-native](https://daily.dev/tags/react-native), [#ionic](https://daily.dev/tags/ionic)

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