React Native Skia: A Year in Review and a Look Ahead - Shopify

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This post details the evolution of React Native Skia over its first year, highlighting the transition from an alpha release to a fully-tailored declarative architecture. Key technical advancements include the development of a custom React Renderer and the Skia DOM API, enabling UI thread rendering for Skia drawings and significantly improving performance by avoiding JavaScript thread bottlenecks and excessive JSI allocations. The post also covers platform integrations (iOS, Android, Web, Node.js), Expo integration, and community contributions like Skottie and React Native Vision Camera. Future work will focus on leveraging Skia DOM for animations.