Upgrading React Native from 0.51 to 0.62: Performance Gains, Migration Strategy, and Deployment Plan
This article details the full migration of a large‑scale mobile app from React Native 0.51 to 0.62, covering background, major improvements such as Hermes engine adoption, extensive performance testing, risk‑controlled batch rollout, API compatibility handling, tooling support, CI/CD integration, and post‑deployment verification.
