Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by asdfsa32 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:37AM (#49645587)

I am using Gemini as well as Opus on a somewhat small project in React Native and I can not imagine this thing being able to build the whole thing on its own without it being a dumbpster fire.

Can you share some details of how you work? What models? What harness?

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by user43928 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:51AM (#49645814)

I use Codex and Claude Code desktop apps. I generally use only the SOTA, now Astra and Fable 5.1, Opus 5 when Fable runs out.

I don't know if Gemini is suitable.

I had few issues with my native iOS app, the results are just decent after a few iterations, the models do what I ask them to do. Where do you see the problem?

The LOC for my app is now at almost 200k + 110k lines of test code.

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by cschep on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:59AM (#49653743)

"the models do what I ask them to do"

what the fuck are you talking about

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by prisonguard on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:41AM (#49655725)

can't believe what has become of this profession

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by prisonguard on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:43AM (#49655747)

what in the gobbledygook is this

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by chis on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:40PM (#49646611)

> Opus

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by asdfsa32 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:21PM (#49653170)

> Are there cybersecurity concerns in the frontend? I would have thought you have to assume the client is untrusted and only do security work on the backend.

I hate software engineering now.

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by atraac on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:34AM (#49654788)

We use CC with Fable(Opus before that) continuously on a rather large project, everything is tested, we maintain high verified test coverage, we ship features x10 faster than when we started(pre Claude-everything era 2-3 years ago). I never worked with RN before and I ship features now. LLMs allowed us to find issues within RN itself, that thanks to some patches, improved lower end Android experience by a lot. We just use all the Claude defaults with claude.md that evolved over last year.

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