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Sticking with React Native

Shopify wrote about their push back to native on mobile. I agree with Theo when he says it's completely over-engineered, to make the original devs feel like their code matters more than it does.

Even though I could comfortably write native apps, there's no way in hell I'm moving off React Native. It's still the best way to write mobile apps, hands down, in my opinion:

  • Over-the-air updates are a killer feature no one else has.
  • Agents just love it.
  • You can run it directly on desktop for testing.
  • The UI speed is equivalent to native.

Anyway, judge for yourself with Shopify's post.