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Most of these stories of companies dumping react native are from apps that didn't start out as react native. Adding react native to an existing app and organisa
by DanielHB 4y ago
Most of these stories of companies dumping react native are from apps that didn't start out as react native. Adding react native to an existing app and organisation is MUCH harder than using react-native or full-native from scratch
Not only on the engineering aspects, but on the people as well. You will have a lot of attrition with devs not wanting to switch
I would say that the only 100% safe way to succeed in this endeavour is to fire ALL your native developers and rewrite the app from scratch instead of introducing RN gradually. Obviously that is impossible for any app that is already big
So unless you are willing to do a full rewrite and fire all your native developers and hire some people with RN knowledge (you need at least a few people with RN specific knowledge even if you have web-only devs) you will most likely fail
Also if you DO want to share code between your RN apps and your web app that is ALSO somewhat harder and might need significant rewrites of your web codebase
So in short, DONT DO IT, it is very unlikely you have the in-house experience and political will within your company to pull it off