Sunsetting React Native at Airbnb

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Airbnb introduces React Native in 2016, ships the Experiences vertical in November, and over 18 months builds 220 screens with about 80k lines of JavaScript and ~40k lines of JS infrastructure while dedicating at least two full‑time engineers to support it. Cross-platform reduces duplicate product work but creates persistent costs: three‑platform complexity, bridging and state‑restore bugs (random white screens), painful upgrades, hiring distortion, and ultimately the platform is sunset in early 2018.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:48Cross-platform at Airbnb
3. 9:33Organizational challenges
4. 23:54Community and open source
5. 26:44Native vs cross-platform
6. 31:39Sunsetting React Native
7. 33:04Introducing Mavericks
8. 44:21Q&A

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