Building an App Clip with React Native - Shopify

This post details the initial exploration and proof-of-concept for building an iOS App Clip using React Native. It highlights the challenges of the 10MB size limit, the need for explicit native dependency management in the Podfile, and the decision to share sub-components rather than entire views between the main Shop app and the App Clip to maintain autonomy and manage size constraints. The initial 'Hello World' App Clip was 28MB, reduced to 4.3MB by explicit dependency management. A scrappy functional version reached 6.5MB, indicating feasibility.