[beeswax]

Thanks for sharing!

I'm currently leading the (soft) transition of a two-platform, not-so-much-shared-code code base (ObjC, Java, Swift, C++) to React Native.

We hit some snags early on (mostly wrt tooling; also prepare to alter your mind set) but as the article states RN yields an astonishing amount of code reuse between platforms as well as heavily reduced turnaround times.

It’s way too early for conclusions/doing a post mortem for our project at this time.

Nonetheless I’d say we’re able to iterate faster by an order of magnitude and the added value of discussing features and domain logic/behavior for both platforms at the same time while enabling UX/UI to get results/feedback faster is a huge win.

That said, I’m really looking forward to the challenges that lie ahead (i18n, RTL quirks, proper unit/feature/integration testing scenarios, non-trivial native bridging, …)