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Folks that are so surprised about all these React sites that re-render clearly haven't experienced anything other than React.

The problem is not the developer, the problem is that the React model makes it hard to avoid re-rendering everything.

This is the Android overdraw overlay on X (native) vs Bluesky (react native).

The React model is inefficient. Period.

This is one of the main reasons animations on React Native apps just don't work that great as they do on native apps. They affect performance significantly due to all the overdrawing.

Hopefully all of this improves on the new React Native Architecture.

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Building /warpcast and /farcaster

— gabrielayuso.com

React Native Developer. Experimenting with consumer apps.

I'm just starting to dig into React Native. Haven't looked into Skia yet but seen it mentioned several times.
It does seem promising based on what I've read.

for complex animations, I think skia is better because the canvas is rendered only once

They're still in React Native 0.74 and they have newArchEnabled set to false so no.

Given the size of their app and their dependencies they'll likely take a bit to migrate.

I'm very eager to test it out for Warpcast

afaik bluesky is already on the new architecture, so didn't really help?

Fingers crossed the new architecture will address these performance issues! Would love to see smoother animations on React Native