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ebooks

In-depth guides to
React and React Native

These are the resources we wish we had-clear, practical, and grounded in years of hands-on work on cross-platform apps.

TV
2025

The Ultimate Guide to React Native TV Development

Modern TV platforms share familiar foundations yet behave unlike any other device class. This guide gives you a clear path through that landscape, from understanding the hardware and operating systems to designing effective 10-foot interfaces, managing focus, streaming video reliably, and preparing an app for production at scale.

You’ll learn how React Native fits into the TV ecosystem, how to build for platforms like tvOS, Android TV, Tizen, and webOS, and how to navigate the practical engineering challenges behind living-room experiences.

  • Understand the TV ecosystem and its platform constraints
  • Design interfaces for the 10-foot experience and remote-driven navigation
  • Build performant TV apps using React Native and react-native-tvos
  • Implement video playback, accessibility, focus management, and testing strategies

Written by engineers at Callstack and Amazon with deep experience in cross-platform development, this guide helps teams use their React skills to ship consistent, reliable TV apps across devices.

Brownfield
2025

Incremental React Native Adoption in Native Apps

This guide is for iOS and Android teams who want to experiment with React Native gradually, without slowing delivery or rewriting the whole app.

You’ll get:

  • A side-by-side look at legacy vs. modern integration approaches
  • How the Packaging Approach and React Native Brownfield library simplify setup
  • Step-by-step walkthroughs for iOS and Android
  • Real-world migration insights from the Callstack team

This guide will help you bring React Native into production safely and incrementally.

Performance
2025

The Ultimate Guide to React Native Optimization

Callstack’s Ultimate Guide to React Native Optimization became an industry reference. This update reflects the biggest changes in React Native optimization to help you stay ahead of performance challenges in 2025 and beyond.

  • Updated techniques for React Native’s New Architecture (Fabric, TurboModules, JSI)
  • Optimizations for Hermes and React Compiler
  • Advanced profiling and debugging methods using the latest tools
  • Practical real-world optimizations from top React Native teams
Performance
2025

React Native Performance Optimization with DMAIC Guide

From struggling with slow app load times to inefficient user interactions, performance issues can harm your business and frustrate your users. This ebook presents a structured, data-driven approach, DMAIC-to diagnose, address, and sustain performance improvements in React Native applications. Based on a detailed real-world case study, you'll learn precisely how DMAIC can help achieve measurable enhancements:

  • Cut down app start times drastically.
  • Accelerate critical user interactions.
  • Maintain consistent performance through continuous monitoring.

Authored by Callstack's software engineers, this ebook provides actionable guidance to significantly boost your application's speed, efficiency, and overall user experience.

Performance
2025

Incremental React Native Adoption Reimagined

The challenges organizations face when migrating to React Native often feel familiar. In this guide, we detail three proven scenarios for adopting React Native, each illustrated by real-world examples from global enterprises. Discover how React Native can transform your applications effectively and safely, without disrupting business operations. Here's what you'll read about if you download it:

  • Validating React Native viability with a real-world Proof of Concept.
  • Consolidating development through hybrid migrations.
  • Replacing siloed native code with reusable React Native components.

Authored by Michał Pierzchała and with the input of software engineers working on brownfield projects on a daily basis, this guide provides clear instructions for implementing incremental React Native adoption in your organization.

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We don't follow best practices, we set them
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