###SLIDE 0 Hi, my name is Ken Wheeler, I work at Formidable and I’m here to talk about building the Walmart IOS pharmacy in React. Before I get down to brass tacks, I’d like to speak briefly about how we got to this point.
###SLIDE 1 Walmart loves React. We have React in production right now, and we are in the middle of switching most tracks on Walmart.com to React. It has been working great for us.
###SLIDE 2 We developed an internal platform called Electrode, where we have all of the UI components on Walmart.com built as React components. Previously, we had seen developers building the same UI components over and over again, and React has given us the opportunity to only build these components once and reuse them all over the place.
So I was asked if I wanted to take a crack at converting a portion of the mobile application to React Native, and I was like what are you kidding me, of course I do. Me and a small team spent the next few months building the Pharmacy in react native and it has been downright