Five years of React Native at Shopify

The quality standards are so low… half a second to switch screens is ok? Jesus!

Apple just keeps making billions and billions by focusing on UX, when other ”tech” companies are satisfied with this garbage.

I was just showing my team this article. We'd start getting warning alerts if our P75 page load times reached 500ms. I wonder if we're measuring load times differently.

It's also their P75 target load time.

Agreed. The web driven enshittification of everything continues. It doesn't have to be this way. It really doesn't.

If what you're using makes it this way, maybe stop using it? Stop drinking the kool-aid, get over your sunk cost fallacy and start thinking about what your end user experience should be, and work backwards from there, making decisions that guarantee you hit it. Don't choose the language or tool first and leave yourself constrained to only what is possible in it.

> The quality standards are so low…

Every so often they write an article talking about how great their several-years-long effort to switch to React Native is going, and every time I read it and come away with an even more negative opinion of React Native.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34263896

https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/1bxogd1/have_you_con...

The sunk cost fallacy in this case would've prevented the switch from native. And what's worse is they've thought about user experience, "just" set the bar for it too low

I've learned not to trust company technical blogs. They're all just marketing fluff intended to act as recruiting materials, and judging by the comments here, it's working. As your post highlights, taken in the greater context, it sounds like their decision to move to React Native was so slow going and the end-user experience is just okay.

I suppose taken from the perspective of "We want to easily hire frontend devs that can easily be slotted in to work on the project and make impact on all platforms, including mobile" then it's a win, but at a cost in years and a degraded user experience. From a business perspective, probably a good move in the long run.