# What We Learned from Open-Sourcing FlashList

DevFeed: [What We Learned from Open-Sourcing FlashList](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-we-learned-from-open-sourcing-flashlist-1675.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/what-we-learned-from-open-sourcing-flashlist>)

Author: David Cortés

Published: 2022-11-17T16:00:01Z

Content type: tutorial

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>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>)

Tags: [launch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/launch.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [react-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react-native.md>)

## AI overview

A guide to launching an open-source React Native library, based on Shopify's experience with FlashList. It describes the list-performance problem that motivated the project and introduces lessons on understanding users, building authority, and planning a launch.

## Source excerpt

Here's how we launched the React Native List library FlashList as an open-source project, and how you can make your next open-source project a success.