Shopify rebuilt its Shop app native in 12 weeks with coding agents, dropping React Native
rseroter · x · 2026-09-11
Shopify migrated its Shop app from React Native to Swift and Kotlin, arguing coding agents changed the math on shared codebases. A one-engineer, one-week PoC porting the RN app to SwiftUI with agents was compelling enough to commit, and the team went from proof of concept to fully rebuilt native apps in the app stores in 12 weeks—for an app serving hundreds of millions of customers.
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