Comment by hunterb123

This thread initially started by me comparing Svelte to React.

React uses webpack usually, RN uses metro usually, you can use esbuild, swc, etc for either though.

Svelte is a web tech, and thus uses web bundlers like webpack, thus has the same "faults", though I'm not sure what specifically is being critiqued.

When comparing RN to other cross platform solutions like Flutter you're wanting to compare it's package manager / bundler to Metro and the native dependency systems such as Cocoapods.

Just wanted to clear that up.