Shopify announced in September 2026 that it is migrating from React Native back to native development with Swift and Kotlin. The company, which adopted React Native in 2020 to streamline cross-platform mobile development, reconsidered this decision after advances in large language models (LLMs) reduced the traditional cost advantage of code sharing, making native development more viable.
Screenmap is a GitHub Action for Expo and React Native apps that automatically captures screenshots of all screens affected by a pull request, posts them as PR comments with visual diffs, and runs in GitHub Actions using Claude as the default AI agent.