How Many Frontenders Do You Need to Build a Mobile App?
summary
A frontend team embeds React Native screens into the existing Yandex.Money app, builds a reusable component library and produces an iOS JavaScript bundle that behaves like a native screen. On Android they hit blockers: the bundled JS engine is outdated, Facebook’s native libraries lack 64-bit builds causing cryptography and packaging failures, and frequent bridge roundtrips introduce jank. Four frontend developers spent about 2.5 months to prototype; porting to Android took roughly a week but could not reach production.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:29Mobile devs in teams
- 6:24Mobile app approaches
- 13:09React Native for frontend
- 24:25Integrating React Native
- 32:38React Native limits
- 39:45Experiment conclusions
- 45:56Q&A
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