# Why use React Native?

React Native allows developers to build mobile applications for both iOS and Android using a single codebase written in JavaScript and React. It achieves this by bridging your code to native platform components, which provides a smooth user experience and performance similar to apps built with platform-specific languages. This approach reduces development time and maintenance costs because most of the logic is shared across different mobile platforms.

Visit the following resources to learn more:

- [@article@React Native: What is it? and, Why is it used?](https://medium.com/@thinkwik/react-native-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-used-b132c3581df)