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FlashList – A better list for React Native Siavash Etemadieh Staff Engineer / Core Mobile

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2 Shopify ❤ React Native

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Shopify Shop Inbox POS

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Lists 4

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5 We started with

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Advantages ● Great API ● Optimized with Virtualization ● Works well in many cases 6

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Cons ● Large/Complex Lists ● Low end Android experience ● CPU Intensive 7

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Shop App with FlatList

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9 We want everyone to enjoy Shopify

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● maxToRenderPerBatch ● removeClippedSubviews ● updateCellsBatchingPeriod ● initialNumToRender ● windowSize 10 FlatList performance props

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Solutions in the Community? 11

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RecyclerListView 12

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● It’s fast! (Recycling over Virtualisation) ● Scales with large & Complex Lists ● Highly customizable ● Mature & Well adopted Advantages 13

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● API is complicated ● No simple solution to dynamic heights ● First render layout issues Shortcomings 14

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⚡ FlashList 15

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● 60/120fps fps on all devices ● Developer friendly ● Solve Dynamic Cell heights ● Instrumentation Goals 17

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18 Developer friendly

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19 FlashList API

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FlashList Performance

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How is FlashList so fast? 21

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FlatList’s Virtualisation (10 Viewports)

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23 FlashList (0.5 Viewports)

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Demo

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Photo by Vincent Camacho on Unsplash

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26 FlashList API

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Fixing the First Render 30

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RecyclerListView’s first render lag

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32 FlashList’s

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FlashList – No lag

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Metrics ⚗ Test device: Motorola Moto G 10 (Snapdragon 460) 34

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FlatList UI & JS FPS

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FlashList UI & JS FPS

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Instrumentation 37

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38 useBenchmark() - local useBlankAreaTracker() - production

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39 @shopify/react-native-performance @shopify/react-native-performance-lists-profiler

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Is FlashList production ready? 40

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Shopify Shop Inbox POS

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What’s next? 42

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43 New React Native Architecture (Fabric)

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44 Masonry layout

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🌟 https://github.com/Shopify/flash-list

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49 Shopify ❤ React Native

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Thank you!