Shopify moves back to native iOS and Android, abandoning React Native
fnthawar2 · hn · 2026-09-10
Shopify's engineering blog announces the company is migrating its mobile apps from React Native back to fully native development (Swift/Kotlin). The post reviews why they originally adopted React Native, what worked and what didn't over years of production use, and what ultimately drove the decision to go native again — a notable rollback of React Native at a major tech company.
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