You Don’t Need a Rewrite, You Need React Native Brownfield | React Universe On Air Coffee Talk #27

About this episode

This episode discusses how React Native Brownfield provides a smarter path for cross-platform app development without the need for a complete rewrite.

Is rewriting your native app really the only way to go cross-platform? In this Coffee Talk episode, we explore how React Native Brownfield offers a smarter path forward. Łukasz Chludziński invites Oskar Kwaśniewski and Burak Güner—who work directly on React Native Core and brownfield tooling—to discuss how recent advances in React Native have made brownfield integration far more viable, stable, and scalable. You’ll learn: ➡️ Why brownfield isn’t what it used to be (goodbye, brittle bridging) ➡️ How `RootViewFactory` and `ReactNativeFactory` APIs simplify setup ➡️ What’s new in React Native Brownfield 1.0.0 ➡️ How to keep your architecture clean while integrating React Native ➡️ What this means for modern native stacks like SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose—and future-facing platforms like visionOS Whether you’re maintaining a legacy app or building for what's next, this episode gives you a blueprint for hybrid success. Explore React Native Brownfield 🙌 https://github.com/callstack/react-native-brownfield Check out episode resources on our website 📚 https://bit.ly/3ESW3Lf Catch more React Universe On Air episodes 🎧 https://bit.ly/44A0q8q Get your React Universe Conf 2025 tickets 🎟…

People in this episode

Host: Łukasz Chludziński

Guests: Oskar Kwaśniewski, Burak Güner

Topics covered

• React Native
• Brownfield development
• Cross-platform integration
• Legacy app maintenance
• Hybrid app architecture

Keywords

• React Native
• Brownfield
• cross-platform
• app development
• hybrid success
• native stacks
• integration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: React Native, Callstack

Products: React Native Brownfield, RootViewFactory, ReactNativeFactory, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, visionOS

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