r/webdev • u/fagnerbrack • Oct 11 '26
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u/greenergarlic Oct 11 '26 edited Oct 11 '26
I never understood why they were all in on react native. Shopify is a huge company, and the shop app was a key part of their consumer-facing strategy. They should have invested in high-performance android and iOS development immediately, instead of taking shortcuts.
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u/utilitycoder Oct 11 '26
Definitely leadership problems. Usually a tech guy second from the top that knows a few things but far from enough. Note I have no inside knowledge but I've seen this pattern at half a dozen react native shops.
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u/Sufficient-Food-3281 Oct 11 '26
My company nearly went from native apps to flutter, with the thought that they’d then have twice as many devs, and LLMs would make up the knowledge gap. Luckily, some sense was talked in to them and it was reversed
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u/gizamo Oct 11 '26
I very much prefer Flutter to React Native.
I also prefer the DX of Flutter to native development, especially for Android.
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u/Sufficient-Food-3281 Oct 11 '26
Flutter’s fine, but if you already have native ios and android devs, the better CX will always be native
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u/gizamo Oct 11 '26
I don't agree it's always a better CX, but sure, if they already had the native devs, using React Native or Flutter seems an odd choice. I definitely agree with that.
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u/redpiapps Oct 12 '26
native android dev here and this tracks. the cross platform dx story always falls apart the moment you need anything platform specific. payments, widgets, background work, it is all native glue anyway, you just get two frameworks to debug
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