Shopify ditches React Native, moving all mobile apps back to Swift and Kotlin
altryne · x · 2026-09-10
Shopify announced it is moving all of its mobile apps from React Native back to native Swift and Kotlin. The company says its 2020 all-in bet on React Native was hugely successful and saved significant engineering time, but it has now decided to return to native development — a notable signal for the cross-platform framework ecosystem.
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