# Migrating our Largest Mobile App to React Native

DevFeed: [Migrating our Largest Mobile App to React Native](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/migrating-our-largest-mobile-app-to-react-native-1493.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/migrating-our-largest-mobile-app-to-react-native>)

Author: Mauricio de Meirelles

Published: 2022-12-27T14:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [React Native](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react-native.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [User experience (UX)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ux.md>), [Tech Debt](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tech-debt.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [components](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/components.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [react-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react-native.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [tech-debt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech-debt.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>), [ux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ux.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes migrating its largest mobile app, Shopify Mobile, from native development to React Native. Because a full rewrite would take years and pause feature development, the team adopted React Native gradually by building new features with it and migrating existing code as needed.

## Source excerpt

In 2020, we announced that React Native is the future of mobile at Shopify. As part of that journey, we've been migrating Shopify Mobile (our largest app at 300 screens per platform) from native to React Native. Here's how it's going.