When To Go Native Over Javascript Posted on 12 Jun 21:54 , 0 comments
Here's a nice little presentation by Harry Tormey at React Chicago which clearly lays out the complexities involved with tracking a device's location in the background and why this needs to be done directly with Native APIs.
This is exactly what the Background Geolocation plugin does for you.
(Watch for his recommendation to use Transistor Software's react-native-background-geolocation plugin at 19:42, thanks Harry ;)