Keynote Part 2: Incrementally Adopting React Native at Facebook and not just Keynote
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Describes incremental adoption inside Facebook with concrete numbers and fixes: about 11 megabytes of minified JavaScript across hundreds of views, several-minute native build times, and optimizations like inline requires, native module optimization, and parallel data fetching to cut startup latency. Explains tooling to avoid rebuilds by downloading prebuilt binaries to simulators and loading views on the fly, shows categories of successful uses (web-view conversions, high-design screens, full‑screen and cross‑app features), and highlights integration with native infra and mobile UX details.
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