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Shopify's React Native Journey: an In-Flight Retrospective
Five years into their journey with React Native, Shopify's mobile team has shared a wealth of insights from their experience, highlighting what worked, what didn't, and what lies ahead.
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State of React Native 2024 Survey Highlights
Conducted between December 2024 and January 2025, the State of React Native 2024 Survey collected insights from around 3,500 React Native developers to capture the current state of key tools and technologies in the React Native ecosystem and help developers make better decisions, explains Software Mansion software engineer Bartłomiej Bukowski, who curated the survey.
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React Native 0.64 Brings the Hermes JavaScript Engine to iOS
The latest version of React Native adds support for the Hermes JavaScript engine on iOS and moves to React 17.
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Writing Native Windows Apps with React and WinUI 3
The latest releases of React Native Windows, a Microsoft framework for building native Windows 10 applications, upgrade to the latest React Native version (0.64) and experimentally support WinUI 3 (in preview). Microsoft also maintains react-native-macos for native MacOS applications.
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Pros and Cons of Migrating to React Native at Khan Academy
After a two-year long transition from native to React Native for their iOS and Android apps, Khan Academy engineer Bryan Clark offered their view on the pros and cons of this decision.
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Recoil - a New State Management Library for React
Recoil is a brand new, experimental state management by Facebook that addresses many of the problems larger applications encounter when using the existing Context API.
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React Native is the Way to Go for Mobile App Development at Shopify
After a year spent experimenting with React Native, Shopify says it will adopt it for future mobile app development. Reported benefits include almost doubled development performance and over 95% code sharing across platforms.
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Using React Native for iOS and Android App Development at Walmart
For the last two years, Walmart engineers have been steadily integrating React Native into their mobile development tool chest. Instead of aiming for a pure React Native app, they chose to deliver a hybrid app leveraging the best of native and React.
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Facebook Hermes May Significantly Reduce Boot-Time and Memory Usage in Android React Native Apps
Recently open-sourced by Facebook, JavaScript Engine Hermes aims to improve the performance of React Native Apps on Android devices, especially focusing on startup performance, download size, and memory consumption. Facebook claims are backed by initial benchmarking on Microsoft Office and Mattermost, an open source alternative to Slack.
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Microsoft Announces React Native for Windows, with Focus on Performance
Microsoft recently announced at Microsoft Build 2019 a MIT-licensed, performance-oriented re-implementation of React Native for Windows. The new React Native for Windows will enable React Native developers to build native Windows apps with React. With the Windows 10 SDK support, developers may target a large variety of Windows devices such as PCs, tablets, laplets, Xbox, or Mixed Reality devices.
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React Native Team Surveys Developers' Pain Points
The React Native team recently surveyed React Native developers with a single question: "What do you dislike about React Native?" Developers overwhelmingly mentioned developer experience, including debugging, as their first grievance. Community handling, and documentation were also prominently featured as pain points.
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UI Development Environment "Storybook 4" Supports Six New View Layers, Including Ember and MarkoJS
The Storybook 4.0 release adds support for six new view layers including Ember, MarkoJS, and Svelte, and updates its dependencies to Webpack 4 and Babel 7.
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Shoutem Aims to Be the WordPress of React Native Mobile Apps
Shoutem has recently launched its new React Native-based app builder, which is being presented to developers as the WordPress for mobile apps. InfoQ has spoken with Shoutem's VP of marketing, Robert Sekulić.
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React Fiber: A Closer Look at the New Engine of React
Facebook is working on a completely new architecture underpinning React, their popular JavaScript framework. The new design, dubbed React Fiber, alters how and when changes are detected in order to improve perceived responsiveness on browsers and other rendering targets. React Fiber will be launched in version 16 and should be a drop-in replacement for most React apps.
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Combining Angular 2 with React Native
Angular 2’s architecture makes it possible to render an application with various renderers including React Native.