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I'm always scared of these headlines for companies who aren't greenfield. Shopify is a perfect case for RN. Write once deploy both platforms. The issue that ge
by irjustin 7y ago
I'm always scared of these headlines for companies who aren't greenfield.
Shopify is a perfect case for RN. Write once deploy both platforms. The issue that gets glossed over is for existing apps that have to do the data and abstraction layer on top of native codes. It starts to become prohibitively expensive to maintain the native, RN, and data layers unless you're willing to rewrite the native side.
Airbnb fell into this problem[0] and so did my old company.
I love RN for what it is and can do, but big companies that hop on and then are forced to hop off because of internal politics makes it a difficult case for RN because then it becomes "look, RN didn't work out for Airbnb or Shopify..."
I hope for the best of luck and success to the RN engineers.
[0] https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb...