Hello, my name is Tian and I am a computer scientist. I am also a professor at a private university called Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, USA.

I started working with Android app development a number of years back and over the past few years, more and more students that took my mobile and ubiquitous computing course have chosen to work with React Native or Flutter. I thought it might be time for me to look into these cross-platform development solutions and perhaps come up with a roadmap that is beginner friendly.

When I started my academic job search a few years back, Jekyll has already become a quick and easy way to put together a personal or research lab site. I also tried Jekyll but found that the output is often at the mercy of some open source themes; and I never got around to actually extend and work on the theme I like. And then I started my job and then...