Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by atonse on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:36PM (#49647493)

I answered elsewhere that I don’t personally use Android phones but we have people on our team that do. Which is why I don’t want to personally claim that it feels native.

But yes we are having real Android users test it.

So it’s quite the contrary. I care MORE what real users say. I can only guarantee that the app does things when I tap. So I’m not trusting the agent on UX, only on functionality. But whether it feels native, I am relying on those users in our team.

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by collingreen on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:11PM (#49651376)

That's much better than my original, perhaps unfair, read. Thanks for the additional info.

I still would feel scared operating an established product off a newly changed stack the team isn't familiar with though.

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by atonse on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:10PM (#49660803)

Yeah that's totally fair. So am I, which is why I'm making sure we're still manually testing the hell out of it before we release it.

But our product now has a way more extensive test suite than it ever did, again, thanks to the agents writing pretty damn good tests.

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