# Shopify spent years on React Native -- then rebuilt everything in 12 weeks

DevFeed: [Shopify spent years on React Native -- then rebuilt everything in 12 weeks](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/shopify-spent-years-on-react-native-then-rebuilt-everything-in-12-weeks-8488.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://thenewstack.io/shopify-native-ai-agents/>)

Author: Amanda Caswell

Published: 2026-09-10T19:46:50Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [The New Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-new-stack.md>)

Topics: [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [ai-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-engineering.md>), [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [ios](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ios.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [react-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react-native.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-development.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify is moving its consumer mobile app from React Native to fully native development, arguing that improved coding agents and LLMs reduce the cost of platform-specific implementation. The article also cites an AI-assisted JavaScript-runtime port as an example of rapidly changing rewrite economics.

## Source excerpt

In 2020, Shopify made a bet that resonated across the developer world by writing mobile code once in React Native The post Shopify spent years on React Native -- then rebuilt everything in 12 weeks appeared first on The New Stack.