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Shopify just migrated two massive apps to React Native's New Architecture without pausing weekly releases or breaking production for millions of merchants.
Shopify just eliminated one of React Native's biggest pain points: guessing item sizes for performant lists.
Shopify had 600 mobile screens to build. Building them all natively would have crushed their velocity, but WebViews felt slow and broken.
Shopify went all-in on React Native five years ago. Here's what happened when they migrated every single mobile app.
Mustafa Ali from Shopify just dropped a masterclass in platform migration strategy. Five years after betting the company's mobile future on React Native, here's what actually happened.
Shopify just completed a massive React Native migration of a decade-old app—and the results are stunning.
Shopify doubled developer productivity by turning the most tedious part of mobile development into a one-click experience.
Shopify's mobile app was getting slower after migrating to React Native. So they spent a year making it blazingly fast again.
Daniel Friyia from Shopify breaks down React Native Skia, the library pushing mobile animations beyond what most developers thought possible. If you've been intimidated by those hypnotic animation demos, this i...
Andrew Lo from Shopify reveals why your React Native gestures feel clunky. The fix? Two simple physics principles most developers ignore.
Mauricio de Meirelles from Shopify reveals how they're migrating a 300-screen app to React Native without a full rewrite. The approach they chose might surprise you.
Shopify went all-in on React Native, but had one critical question: Is it actually as fast as native? They needed proof, not assumptions.
Matt Bowen and the Shopify team discovered their Android widgets were making up to 5 unnecessary network calls per update cycle. Their solution? A clever 60-second cache that transformed widget performance.
Shopify's React Native team just solved one of mobile development's most persistent headaches: getting lists to scroll smoothly without blank cells or frame drops.
Christian Falch and William Candillon from Shopify just solved React Native's biggest weakness. They brought Skia (the graphics engine powering Chrome, Android, and Flutter) directly to React Native developers.
Joey Freund from Shopify reveals how they let third-party developers extend their UI without compromising security or performance. The secret? Rendering UI in one place while defining it in another.
Sebastian Ekström from Shopify built something that shouldn't exist: a React Native App Clip under 10MB. The Shop app itself is 51MB, and React Native isn't exactly known for being lightweight.
Shopify's home feed was consuming 30% of their total database load and slowing down their entire app. Off-the-shelf caching solutions wouldn't cut it.
Scott Birksted from Shopify tackles a frustrating gap between Kotlin and Swift: why can't Swift structs copy themselves as elegantly as Kotlin data classes?
Ash Furrow, AJ Robidas, and Michelle Fernandez from Shopify reveal what actually happens when web, Android, and iOS developers learn React Native. Spoiler: their biggest fears weren't the real challenges.