React Native Skia—For Us, For You, and For Fun - Shopify

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Introduces React Native Skia, a library that brings Skia's 2D drawing primitives to React Native. It leverages the new React Native architecture (JSI) for direct communication between JavaScript and native modules, enabling consistent graphical capabilities across iOS, Android, and Web. The API is designed to be compatible with Flutter's Skia API, allowing for potential future support of Skia on the web via CanvasKit. A declarative API is provided on top of the imperative Skia API, utilizing the React Reconciler for diffing and optimization. The post highlights features like image filters, shaders, SVG, path operations, and text layouts, showcasing examples of advanced graphics and animations, including integration with Reanimated 2.