New Architecture - Considerations/Discussion

[8BallBomBom]

With the release of React Native 0.74 there have been some significant improvements to the upcoming New Architecture.
As it stands things are still experimental but sooner or later the New Architecture will become default.
Now seems like a good time to start working on supporting the new stuff.
Luckily we can still keep some backwards compatibility.

Over the coming weeks I'll be pushing changes up over here on the new-arch branch.
Then after a while we can start testing and eventually get a release out.

Pinning this as a place to discuss anything related to the upcoming changes.
Will also put a check list here soon.

[saghul]

Last I checked new arch is basically turbo modules in C++ but we can't do that here.

So well the minimum compatibility thing to keep using the bridge anyway.

[8BallBomBom]

Probably should have described things a little better ahaha 🤔
But yes I was planning on keeping to Java and Objective-C but implementing the TurboModule and Fabric changes.
Both fall under the New Architecture.

But to fully take advantage of everything we would indeed need to change over to C++ 😅
Something I'm willing to eventually put some time into, bit by bit we could get there.

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Slight update on this, will be pushing code up shortly along with a PR.
Android support seems to be working as expected, iOS still needs some work.
This will be a disruptive update as some things have been moved around and requirements have changed a little.
But what counts is the obvious, this should be a drop in update.

[santhoshvai]

you can also count me into this, we can move to using turbo modules and fabric with a fair amount of work

[8BallBomBom]

Been a little delayed on this but will be looking to put the first parts up soon.
TurboModule + Fabric - Android and TS first 😉