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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: 0s | source
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breckenedge ◴[16 Jan 25 17:56 UTC] No.42728538[source]▶
Glad they spent some times discussing the downsides. I’m 4 months in to a Hotwire Native replacement for an unmaintained React Native app. The differences are stark and I could definitely see myself picking up Hotwire again for another project if given the same constraints, but I’ve had good experiences with React Native in the past too. Ultimately though I just do not like all the work that has to go into maintaining a large scale React codebase.
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1. Mystery-Machine ◴[17 Jan 25 14:44 UTC] No.42737998[source]▶
Great to see Hotwire Native here! I was asking myself would it be easier for Shopify to steer back more towards Rails ecosystem technologies. They went React / JavaScript full-throttle. JavaScript ecosystem seems so immature, and changing constantly with a huge maintenance burden. Rails feels really stable and Hotwire, although it's changing, feels stable. Stimulus was announced in 2018 I believe and they didn't have a single paradigm shift comparable to React's hooks, server components, etc.