React Everywhere: Bringing React Into Native Apps

Presented
React Conf
Speaker
Mike Grabowski
CEO & Founder
@
Callstack

Many teams today run React on the web, while their mobile apps remain fully native or rely on WebViews. React Native is often underestimated, yet it can directly replace WebViews and unlock features that otherwise require workarounds, from dynamic content to real-time updates.

This talk will show how React fits naturally into mobile, like on the web where it can work alongside any frontend framework. The focus of this talk is on how React Native can be added to an existing application with minimal effort, then gradually expanded to replace native code or WebViews.

React Native is a low‑hanging opportunity: a no‑brainer way to do even more with React, even for teams that have never built mobile before.

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