React Native 76.0 — Exploring & Enabling new architecture by fixing CMAKE build issues.

And boost your app’s performance!

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Gautham Vijayan | Lead React Native Developer

React Native 76.0 is out and it provides new architecture by default. I have used old architecture for all of my production apps in the past 4 years and the time has come for me to migrate to the stable new architecture for enhanced performance.

In this post, I will be explaining and providing solutions to the following,

1. Why React Native 76.0 is a groundbreaking change to the React Native ecosystem and why you have to use it for your existing and new projects.
2. How to solve the CMAKE build issues if you are brand new to New Architecture just like myself.

I have also made a Youtube Video explaining the same and have linked it at the end of the post explaining the same.

React Native 76.0’s groundbreaking changes

React Native 76 has introduced quite a lot of changes like,

1. New Architecture by default. You can check out the benchmarks for the older versions of React Native with the new one by Dream11 team - https://reactnativebenchmark.dev/
2. Box shadows just like how we…