I use the Airbnb app a lot and have done so for years and there is nothing terribly advanced or unusual going on. It may have been a cargo cult decision to layer RN into whatever they had beforehand, but if so that increases the chance that evicting it was also a cargo cult decision.
Read the blog posts, they had no approach to app-side state and it was essentially a battle between sub teams to see who could make their own ad hoc approach to state “win” organizationally and force other teams to deal with it when data sharing.
Sounds like a nightmare both from a cultural and engineering perspective. It made it so the only way to get a unified engineering perspective was a political “purge” of RN adherents.
Read the blog posts, they had no approach to app-side state and it was essentially a battle between sub teams to see who could make their own ad hoc approach to state “win” organizationally and force other teams to deal with it when data sharing.
Sounds like a nightmare both from a cultural and engineering perspective. It made it so the only way to get a unified engineering perspective was a political “purge” of RN adherents.