The Future of React Native Graphics: WebGPU, Skia, and Beyond (2025) - Shopify

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This post details the integration of WebGPU as a backend for React Native Skia, enabling unified graphics rendering across platforms and leveraging libraries like Three.js and TensorFlow.js. It highlights architectural improvements to React Native Skia's reconciler and scene graph, leading to significant performance gains and expanded platform support to macOS, tvOS, and Node.js. The post also introduces Skia Graphite, an experimental Skia backend for modern GPU APIs, which enables automatic threading and seamless 2D/3D composition.