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This strong sign of the confidence Twitter has in React Native for Web[1]. In 2017, Nicolas Gallagher gave a talk[2] about why it was used for mobile.twitter.com.

[1]: https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFFn39lLO-U

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How do you know they use React Native for Web? The article says they unified their desktop and mobile architectures, but doesn't specify how.

Opening in React devtools shows a number of hints[1]. "React Native Style Editor" section. "View" components with numeric "style" props. And the classname prefixes "css-" and "r-" match the generated identifiers from react-native-web[2].

[1]: https://imgur.com/lFUvL7P

[2]: https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web/blob/45f94eb43da...

That's convincing :-) Thanks!

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