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Migrating Shop app from React Native to native

Our short summary of Shopify’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

Maintaining a shared React Native codebase limited performance and added complexity for iOS and Android.

Solution

The team used AI coding agents to translate React Native screens into native SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose, rebuilding the Shop app in 12 weeks.

Native app released in 12 weeks

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

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