So why the switch to React Native? And why now? How does this fit in with our native mobile development? Why Move to React Native Now? There were 3 main reasons now is a great time to take this stance: we learned from our acquisition of Tictail (a mobile first company that focused 100% on React Native) in 2018 how far React Native has come and made 3 deep product investments in 2019 Shopify uses React extensively on the web and that know-how is now transferable to mobile we see the performance curve bending upwards (think what’s now possible in Google Docs vs. desktop Microsoft Office) and we can long-term invest in React Native like we do in Ruby, Rails, Kubernetes and Rich Media. Engineering Shopify
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