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Five years of React Native at Shopify

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324 points onnnon | 1 comments | 13 Jan 25 22:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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zffr ◴[16 Jan 25 19:48 UTC] No.42729978[source]▶
> Our apps are blazing fast (<500ms screen loads)

I’m not sure I would consider 0.5 seconds to be blazing fast.

I wish the article went into detail on what these screens do and what a screen load means exactly.

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1. hombre_fatal ◴[16 Jan 25 23:04 UTC] No.42732043[source]▶
Right after that, they have three links (one blog post, two videos) to explanations of how they optimized screen load speed that can answer that question.

It's a mix of layout stuff (like using lazy list views to avoid below the fold rendering) and network fetches (they talk about using better caching).