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Helix: The internal tool powering our Shopify app's native migration

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Problem

Migrating a large React Native app to native Swift/Kotlin was slow and error‑prone.

Solution

Created Helix, a tool that splits migration into tiny checkpoints with strict review gates, letting LLMs generate code step‑by‑step while engineers guide it.

App rebuilt and published in 12 weeks

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

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