Things I Wish I Knew Before Building My First...

I remember the first time I opened a React Native project. I thought, I already know React, how different can this be? Pretty different, it turns out. Here's what I wish someone had told me before I wasted time figuring it out myself. The bridge is not free Early on I treated React Native like a browser. I passed big objects around, called native modules constantly, didn't think twice about it. Then I started noticing janky animations and sluggish interactions. The JavaScript thread and the nati