React Native at Scale

About this episode

Manjiri Moghe discusses the advantages of React Native for mobile development and shares insights from her experience at Coinbase.

React Native is an open source framework developed by Meta that allows engineers to build mobile applications for both iOS and Android using a single JavaScript codebase. The framework bridges the gap between web development and native mobile, which lets teams ship to both platforms simultaneously without sacrificing the look and feel of a truly native app. Manjiri Moghe is a Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase, where she has spent five years building and scaling one of the world's most demanding React Native applications. Her work spans performance optimization, reliability engineering, and the developer tooling that keeps large engineering teams moving quickly without sacrificing quality. In this episode, Manjiri joins Josh Goldberg to discuss why React Native has become the framework of choice for high-velocity mobile teams, how Coinbase measures app health, how to handle data fetching and loading in production, how AI coding agents are changing the day-to-day workflow for mobile engineers, and more. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most…

People in this episode

Host: Josh Goldberg

Guest: Manjiri Moghe

Topics covered

• React Native
• mobile applications
• performance optimization
• reliability engineering
• developer tooling
• AI coding agents

Keywords

• React Native
• mobile development
• Coinbase
• performance optimization
• AI coding agents
• JavaScript
• developer tooling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Coinbase, Meta

Products: React Native

Books & works: Learning TypeScript

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