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Migrating Shop app from React Native to native

As one of the fastest growing mobile apps in the world, the Shop app serves hundreds of millions of customers and millions of merchants. Since we introduced it in 2020, Shop app has been at the forefront of Shopify’s wider investment in React Native, adopting the framework from its inception. That decision has served Shop app well, but our increasing ability to develop with coding agents has allowed Shop to go fully native, building with Swift and Kotlin. We wrote in depth about our decision to go native, but the TL;DR is that advances in coding agents changed the tradeoffs behind maintaining a shared mobile codebase. Building separately for iOS and…
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