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Why has Shopify dropped React Native? 🍼

Not sure you’re aware, but I used to build native Android apps, React-native apps and later Flutter apps for 10 years combined. And the discussion on the prevailing technology never were cold or absent. Looks like agentic development not only changes the way we work day to day, but also the way we evaluate technology. Shopify was the biggest promoter of React Native for the last 5 years. The era is over though.

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Pragmaticengineer Why has Shopify dropped React Native? It’s only been a year since the e-commerce platform declared it was very happy with React Native, but now Shopify is dumping it – and the reason, unsurprisingly, is AI
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