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Five years of React Native at Shopify

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324 points onnnon | 3 comments | 13 Jan 25 22:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.708s | source
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hsavit1 ◴[16 Jan 25 22:14 UTC] No.42731592[source]▶
So many of you are yapping about how the performance is not good enough. Yet none of you are talking about how Shopify literally could not develop their mobile app without it. The 3 minutes to compile the app just to do a trivial change makes it near impossible for devs to be productive. Hot reloading is what got me hooked to react native, I literally cannot allow for my brain to rot waiting for minutes waiting for Xcode to compile for a simple border radius change.
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1. sgarland ◴[17 Jan 25 00:52 UTC] No.42732848[source]▶
And yet somehow, devs dealt with this tragedy for decades before us, cranking out software that was 100x smaller and 100x faster. Weird.
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2. wiseowise ◴[17 Jan 25 12:44 UTC] No.42736951[source]▶
In what imaginary world you’re living, where basic Android app or iOS app are 100x smaller and 100x faster than RN?
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3. sgarland ◴[17 Jan 25 14:17 UTC] No.42737720[source]▶
I was referring to PC programs, long before the term DX had become a thing.