Editor’s note: Anders Lassen is the founder and CEO of Fuse, the first native app tool suite for both designers and developers. Facebook just open-sourced its React Native framework for building ...

Building mobile apps today can feel stuck in the past. Back in 2016, as a mobile engineer, I couldn’t get enough of Swift and Kotlin. They were sharp, powerful tools. But the landscape’s shifted.

Walmart is placing a big bet on React Native. With Electrode, the company’s Walmart Labs division open sourced the React-based framework that powers Walmart.com’s frontend and today the same group is ...