React Native is great for writing cross-platform apps. Certain use cases, however, still require native code. Together we will look at how to evaluate when native code is the better choice.

Hot reloading--the ability to push over the air updates to published apps and the promise of having your app “just work” out of the box on Android as well as iOS--make React Native a tempting proposition for frontend developers. But what do you do when you have to integrate React Native into a large existing native code base?