Shopify Hits 99.9% Crash-Free Sessions with React Native

In 2020, Shopify began transitioning to React Native, embracing it as an important part of their tech stack. Since then their React Native apps hit sub-500ms screen load times (P75) and maintain over 99.9% crash-free sessions.
React Native’s hot reloading feature in particular helped the company increase developer productivity, decreasing build times and keeping workflows unobstructed. Pairing React Native with TypeScript has also made it easy for devs to move between web and mobile projects.
Shopify gave their development teams the freedom to migrate at their own pace, keeping features on track without disrupting progress. Despite React Native’s cross-platform abilities, native code and engineers still play a part in handling complex UI and background tasks to keep performance and user experience top-notch.
Looking ahead, Shopify is committed to further investing in React Native and making the most of the framework’s cross-platform strengths.
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