React Native gives you platform independence for your JavaScript, but WTH does that mean? Let’s talk about what React looks like on web, mobile, and even tvOS.

For a while now, there’s been a dream to build and manage multiple platforms with a single manageable code-base. In some cases, this has been handled poorly, and in others, it’s quite freeing.

What is React Native, and why does it free developers to be able to take their React knowledge to new places? We’ll look at a tvOS app, and the conceptual differences you need.