React Native's New Architecture improves performance, developer experience, and aligns with React's features.
React Native's New Architecture includes synchronous layout updates, concurrent rendering, JavaScript Interface (JSI), and support for advanced React 18+ features.
The New Architecture removes the asynchronous bridge between JavaScript and native, replacing it with JSI for shared memory between the two layers, significantly improving performance.
The New Architecture includes backward compatibility with libraries targeting the old architecture.
Implementing synchronous updates via the useLayoutEffect Hook in React can avoid visual glitches and improve user experience.
The React Native team has created an app to compare the old and New Architectures and identify performance gaps.
If you use React Native 0.76 or later, the New Architecture is the default, requiring no additional configuration.