React Native

Native is now the future of mobile at ShopifyCoding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here's why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.

Shopify is abandoning React Native in favour of native Swift and Kotlin after determining that AI coding agents have erased the cross-platform code-reuse advantage. The post explains how a 2020 bet on React Native succeeded initially but became harder to justify once LLM-powered agents can translate, test, and review code across platforms cheaply.

Blog post · Mobile Development · React Native · Swift · Kotlin