Agreed, I’ve never used react native myself but I do use CapacitorJS to run JS (TS) apps and with a dev server I can hit save in my IDE and see it on my phone screen in <1 second on average. It’s so nice for iteration.
Throughout my career, I found that the faster I can go from wanting to try something to seeing it working, the better. Without that quick iteration cycle, I end up, not trying certain things or trying to batch all of my changes which then makes it harder to be sure what actually fixed it.
Exactly. I wouldn’t be surprised if Shopify ended up building some tooling to try to solve this, but Apple in particular is remarkably disinterested in or perhaps inept at improving the developer experience, and agents won’t magically fix that.
Throughout my career, I found that the faster I can go from wanting to try something to seeing it working, the better. Without that quick iteration cycle, I end up, not trying certain things or trying to batch all of my changes which then makes it harder to be sure what actually fixed it.