Ashoat Tevosyan & Varun Dhananjaya – How To Integrate Rust Into A React Native App | App.js Conf '23
JSI has been a game changer for React Native apps. But C++ comes with many downsides, among them memory safety issues, lack of good package management, and a lack of compatibility with modern JS paradigms. Rust offers memory safety guarantees, a robust package manager, and more modern features like async/await and runtimes (akin to the JS event loop). But integrating it into a React Native project on both iOS and Android can be challenging. In this talk we discuss how to integrate Rust into a React Native app, ultimately implementing a JSI function that returns a Promise, which enqueues tasks to execute on an async Rust runtime. We then delve into more sophisticated use cases, including how Comm leverages Rust in our mobile app today.
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