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- React is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend

1.0
Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)
10%
1 Rating
8.3
React
83%
12 Ratings
Usability

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N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
React
90%
2 Ratings
Support Rating

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N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
React
100%
6 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)
I do not think I can recommend Appcelerator at this point due to the issues with Appcelerator studio, lack of good debugging support, lack of thorough documentation and forums and the additional cost overhead of licenses. The pros are just that it allows for cross-platform development. However, Cordova does a much better job of it and excels at places where Appcelerator currently struggles

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesReact
React is great for people who are trying to build complex single page web applications. It is intuitive for developers, encourages modularity through components, and provides a web app this will scale. React may not be suited as well for simple websites or static content. However, this is changing with frameworks like Gatsby which allow you to build static HTML websites using React.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 201-500 employeesPros
Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)
- Adds structure to your code through Alloy framework.
- Easy to integrate with iOS SDK and to build and run iOS apps.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesReact
- React is designed around the notion of generated html as opposed to templated html. This provides more flexibility in building elements on a page, and allows developers to create html that is programmatically configured based on runtime considerations.
- React uses JSX, which is HTML templating integrated into javascript code. This simplifies the generation of complex structures, especially those that vary based on runtime and interactive data.
- React is more efficient because it generates a virtual DOM rather than directly building in in the actual DOM. By building 'offline' in this manner, the DOM generation is faster. After building, it can be installed in one operation.
- React only builds those portions of the display that have changed, making display updates more efficient.
Senior Software Engineer
Survey MonkeyInternet, 501-1000 employees
Cons
Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)
- It is very hard to debug your code. Breakpoints never worked for us even with the latest Appcelerator Studio and we had to rely on log statements to debug.
- There is a need to purchase licenses from Appcelerator to run the code on a device or for creating iOS distribution builds. This is an additional cost when you have already paid for Apple developer program for precisely these things.
- If things are broken due to lack to support between Appcelerator and a new iOS version, you pretty much have to rely on a new version release from Appcelerator for the issue to be fixed.
- It is difficult to create enterprise distribution builds where the distribution certificate is owned by your organization's team and you only have a development certificate for the same.
- The forums on developer.appcelerator.com are seldom helpful. It is hard to find solutions for issues even on other forums like stack overflow.
- Documentation needs to be improved.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesReact
- React could get very frustrating unless you start thinking in React. React enforces a top down hierarchy of data flow and offers no way for the data to communicate backwards. This is a big shift in mindset coming from Angular 1.x. This constraint is really a big factor that determines how to organize your code and how you might want to write your own Components.
- Because of the self imposed top down hierarchy, you end up having a heavy parents with dumb children. Because parents would need to the bulk of the work, they usually manage the state, while passing callbacks to the child components. If not properly designed, this could lead to the callback hell, where you could have callbacks passing through like multiple children.
- As with any library, you will have to iterate through multiple designs to come up with a ways to avoid "heavy parent components" in React. One obvious solution is using some open source tools like Redux, but we opted for a variation of it to suit our needs.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
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General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—React
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Usability
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No score
No answers yet
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React
React 9.0
Based on 2 answers
React is just a bit of a different animal. I was avoiding it for the longest time. I thought for sure I would land on Vue or something else with a more approachable and familiar appearance. But after taking an online course in React, I started realize what people were raving about (and complaining about) and decided to implement it at our office for one of our products.
Developer
By the Book, Inc (Software For Churches/NonProfits)Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees
Support Rating
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No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
React
React 10.0
Based on 6 answers
Since it's open-source and very popular, the community support for React and related tools and libraries is excellent. There are a lot of people using the same tools, and so issues tend to get fixed quickly and "recipes" are easy to come by. And since it's backed by Facebook, they have a dedicated engineering team working on the progression of React.

Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employeesAlternatives Considered
Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)
Appcelerator makes you write a structured code whereas Cordova just packages your code and you are free to structure it. Appcelerator bridges your javascript code with native code and that would make it run faster than javascript code in Cordova apps. However, with recent mobile browsers, you would hardly notice any performance deterioration with Cordova apps. Appcelerator struggles with issues related to its IDE, debugging, documentation and forums and additional costs. Cordova makes it much more simpler to develop cross-platform apps with better developer support, debugging support, documentation and forums minus the additional costs.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesReact
I have also used Angular before coming to React. Web apps created with React are much faster than Angular because React is based on virtual DOM which reloads only those components of the web page that change and everything else remains the same. Angular's learning curve is also slightly steeper than React.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employeesReturn on Investment
Axway Appcelerator (discontinued)
- We were able to build and deploy a mobile app with Appcelerator. However, the platform still has issues and does not cover our needs as much as some of its competitor like cordova does.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesReact
- React allows a modular design, which is fabulous for A/B testing (showing a different module to each user). Some of these experiments had an improvement as big as to pay for the whole team that coded it. So far we know the ROI has been positive, but I can't provide a number.
FrontEnd Web Developer
loveholidaysRecreational Facilities and Services, 201-500 employees