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Write Once, Deploy Everywhere (WODE) has been the promise of many development frameworks over the past decade, whose goal is to ease the pain of writing multiple native applications. Determining which path to take is one of the most critical decisions a project manager has to make due to its high startup cost, impact upon the development team, and potential infeasibility to reverse.

Hybrid solutions such as Ionic leverage web technologies to render applications across platforms, but often, the end product falls short of a user’s expectations of a native look and feel.

However, even the term “native” has recently been muddied by frameworks that compile down to native code (e.g., React Native, Xamarin, etc.).

This article breaks down the pros and cons of various mobile development paths and weighs them against team makeup, cost, and user experience in an effort to empower product managers to make a more informed

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