What Actually Runs When You Write `View` in React Native

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React Native is the framework you ship with but the mental model most devs carry is two years out of date. The bridge is dead. JSI runs your code now. This video walks through what actually happens when you write `View`, why React Native used to feel sluggish, and how the JSI rewrite (with Fabric, TurboModules, and a new threading model) finally made gestures and animations feel native. 0:00 Your `View` is not a view 0:13 Two worlds, three threads 1:06 The old way: the bridge 1:46 The new way: JSI 2:34 Fabric: the new renderer 2:58 TurboModules: lazy native code 3:27 What this means for you 4:11 Recap: the whole loop 4:42 Pin the mental model