Why Airbnb was wrong to ditch React Native in 2018 - Mohammad Javad - RNL - August 2023
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Mohammad Javad - Head of Mobile at Theodo UK - Sunrising React Native: why Airbnb was wrong to ditch React Native in 2018
In this video, Mo discusses React Native and challenges misconceptions about its capabilities and adoption. He starts by introducing React Native and its potential to build mobile applications. Mo mentions a well-known article by Airbnb that raised doubts about React Native's reliability and discusses the changes and improvements since then.
He explains how React Native works, breaking down its architecture, bridging JavaScript and native layers, and the advantages of over-the-air updates. Mo also demonstrates a simple interactive demo using Expo, showcasing React Native's ease of development and flexibility.
Next, he talks about the usage of React Native, highlighting major companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Shopify that have successfully implemented React Native in their applications. He emphasizes that React Native is a thriving community-backed project with a bright future, dispelling doubts raised by the Airbnb article.
Mo shares his excitement about upcoming advancements in React Native, including simpler integrations with the native layer, universal apps, and the potential for micro frontends. He discusses efforts to improve React Native's type safety and performance, showcasing the positive impact of tools like TypeScript and Hermes.
Lastly, he addresses the concerns raised in the Airbnb article, providing updates on how the React Native ecosystem has evolved to address those challenges. He mentions improvements in libraries, performance, and upgrade processes, emphasizing that React Native has come a long way and continues to evolve.
This talk aims to educate viewers about React Native's strengths and potential, encouraging them to explore and consider it for their mobile development projects.
[00:00:00] Intro
[00:01:07] Pre-face
[00:01:30] Should we really use R.N for our next mobile app?
[00:02:29] What is React Native - who uses it in the real world?
[00:05:06] React Native is Native
[00:07:05] Demo
[00:10:09] Usages of React Native
[00:12:58] Future of React Native
[00:14:05] Next Big Things in React Native
[00:15:14] Expo Modules API
[00:16:40] Universal Apps - Bridging the gap between JS & Native
[00:19:13] Micro Frontends for Mobile?
[00:21:21] AirBNB - What worked and didn't
[00:26:09] Q&A
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Love the presentation, but I dont think Airbnb was wrong, Expo two years ago was full of problems for production level apps (i dealt with many of those) and later the maturity of his upgrades make that today Expo its a good choice. So, in 2018.. if your were Airbnb youre bassicaly trapped in user experience capabilities until.. 2021?, thats a lot of loss market and money. This is the same with React Native Web, i've been in a project that used it back in 2018 and it was almost impossible to work with that many workarounds. Today universal apps are pure gold, we used it a lot where i work. Tech changes and matures, i now that the title is just for fun but maybe something like "Why Airbnb can go back to React Native now" could be more accurate
Great video!
RN devtools still leave a lot to be desired for sure.
I don't really think Airbnb did anything wrong at ditching RN, they expose their needs and the lack of support for those features they needed, for instance shared element transitions and navigation, now we have native shared element transitions and native navigation.
The image with the guys and the pickaxe is kind of insulting tbh, sometimes you need to be realistic and give up, they stated that they needed to support three platforms instead of two, back then RN could not solve the problem for them, so they moved on and that's all, nothing inherently wrong with it.
So, Airnb should stop business and wait for hermes, flash-list and expo sdk? Its ridiculous!
No Airbnb would move fster on this!
The title is either misleading or the conclusion doesn't follow the presentation. RN wasn't mature enough at the time, so they should have kept using it? Maybe a better title would be "Why Airbnb might want to revisit using React Native"?
The main problem in this presentation is the name of the presentation.
If Airbnb stayed with React native then they would certainly build the tools they needed, faster, before flashlist and before Expo!!!. The community would move faster!
AirBnb, a core contributor of RN, is wrong, said by someone just using RN. Cope.
its called clickbait
RN, kek
Off topic , but instantly lost respect when he introduced himself as Mo