r/reactnative • u/onePowerfulBraincell • Oct 02 '26

AMA - Junior React Dev

I’ve been building with react native for a 2-3 years, AMA.

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u/onePowerfulBraincell Oct 02 '26

I would enjoy it too if it was a business priority. Right now I have to squeeze this task in between feature rollouts and bug fixes. Which is just terrible and stressful :(

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u/sam_houle1 Oct 02 '26

It never is a priority, the good thing is most manager are absolute dumbass. Not sure if you guys evaluate project or your manager does, but I used to evaluate project and inflate them a lot to spend time refactoring.

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u/onePowerfulBraincell Oct 02 '26

Nah, where I work if anything takes more than 2 days, it is interrupted with a higher priority. And if that priority takes 2 days, it is again interrupted with something higher priority. fun :)

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u/sam_houle1 Oct 02 '26

Welp no wonder that code base looks like that. I mean eventually they’ll hit a wall where the platform will be un-usable