I'm still very confused on how React Native works. Maybe because I don't have a decent background on Mobile Development (I have tried native Android once or twice though).
If I'm not wrong, hybrid frameworks like Phonegap or Ionic will run the entire project (or most of it) in a 'WebView', am I wrong?
Whereas native frameworks such as React Native is meant to use native resources instead of purely web technology.
But we still write Javascript, and React Native does the job so quickly that it is probably still using the Javascript we just wrote (I mean, it's not parsing, translating to native code and recompiling).
The question that comes to my mind is, what exactly is a native resource and what is not in a React Native project? Where is the Javascript we write running if not in a 'webview'? There are native libraries that creates the interface of Javascript to Objective-C and Java for both platforms? In a web-solution it simply injects the entire code in the WebView?
Extra question : can we consider React Native an hybrid framework just because we write one code for many different platforms, or it is not the correct terminology?