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Shopify and Notion Rebuild Mobile Apps in Native Code with AI Help

Notion engineer posts early native mobile rebuild results while Shopify details its React Native exit.

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Ji Pei from Notion posted screenshots comparing smoother native mobile pages to prior versions and asked users for current frustrations. Mustafa Ali, Shopify's Director of Engineering for mobile, described the company's full move away from React Native and credited AI tools for enabling the change. A reply noted that Notion had previously mounted web views inside native shells rather than using React Native. Other visible posts discussed performance differences and whether similar rewrites would spread.

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@mustafa01alihttps://x.com/i/article/209804558740065894722d
@iampgzpWe’re rebuilding Notion natively on mobile. It’s early, but here is how it feels now! What frustrates you Notion on your phone today? I want to hear and improve!21d
@benawadAs much as I love react native, it feels like we are a couple model releases away from this being how everyone builds apps going forward And if you have extra devs, you can do it now like Shopify and squeeze out some perf gains before everyone else’s app follows suit21d
@craviottxThe end of react native era.21d
@theoPosting here because people won't see otherwise. I want to make sure y'all know that Notion does not use React Native. They do use React in their native app, via various different methods of mounting jank web views. Despite being a React Native defender, I would never defend any architecture decision made in the Notion apps.21d
@GergelyOroszEvery few years one eng blog article gets everyone in mobile talking about it; and so devs assume everyone else is doing it; so they do it, even if doesn’t make much sense for them. This is THAT article of the decade. In 2018 it was Airbnb writing an article about the opposite21d
@karrisaarinenGrateful we decided to build the @linear mobile app native from the beginning. We wanted to make the best mobile experience we could. Some really nice additions coming soon.21d
@dhhThis is why founder-led companies tend to do so well. Why they even have a chance when the paradigm shifts. Executive agency, the willingness to just say WE'RE DOING THIS NOW, is the key ingredient. @tobi is among the very best at this, and thus Shopify blossoms.21d
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    @mustafa01alihttps://x.com/i/article/209804558740065894722d
    @iampgzpWe’re rebuilding Notion natively on mobile. It’s early, but here is how it feels now! What frustrates you Notion on your phone today? I want to hear and improve!21d
    @benawadAs much as I love react native, it feels like we are a couple model releases away from this being how everyone builds apps going forward And if you have extra devs, you can do it now like Shopify and squeeze out some perf gains before everyone else’s app follows suit21d
    @craviottxThe end of react native era.21d
    @theoPosting here because people won't see otherwise. I want to make sure y'all know that Notion does not use React Native. They do use React in their native app, via various different methods of mounting jank web views. Despite being a React Native defender, I would never defend any architecture decision made in the Notion apps.21d
    @GergelyOroszEvery few years one eng blog article gets everyone in mobile talking about it; and so devs assume everyone else is doing it; so they do it, even if doesn’t make much sense for them. This is THAT article of the decade. In 2018 it was Airbnb writing an article about the opposite21d
    @karrisaarinenGrateful we decided to build the @linear mobile app native from the beginning. We wanted to make the best mobile experience we could. Some really nice additions coming soon.21d
    @dhhThis is why founder-led companies tend to do so well. Why they even have a chance when the paradigm shifts. Executive agency, the willingness to just say WE'RE DOING THIS NOW, is the key ingredient. @tobi is among the very best at this, and thus Shopify blossoms.21d
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