Comparison with Traditional RN
While Granite is built on React Native, it offers key advantages over traditional React Native development:
| Granite | Traditional React Native | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Microservices - built and deployed independently | Monolithic - entire app built as one unit |
| Brownfield integration | Easy | Hard |
| JS Build | Seconds | Minutes or more |
| Bundle Size | As low as 200KB per service | 1-5MB or larger |
| Bundler | ESBuild | Metro |
| OTA Updates | Built-in | Requires third-party solutions |
| Native Build | Fast (uses prebuilt frameworks) | Slow (builds from scratch) |