Five years of React Native at Shopify (2025) - Shopify

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This post reflects on five years of React Native adoption at Shopify, detailing the reasons for the switch (write once, talent portability, ship more value), the successful outcomes (productivity, speed, stability), and key learnings. It highlights the performance achieved, the benefits of hot reloading and TypeScript, the continued importance of native developers and code, and the challenges faced in debugging, updates, and reliance on third-party libraries. The post also emphasizes the leverage gained from extracting shared foundations into common libraries and expresses optimism for the future of React Native and Shopify's continued contributions.