React Native is an open-source framework developed by meta that allows engineers to build mobile

applications for both iOS and Android using a single JavaScript codebase. The framework bridges

the gap between web development and native mobile, which lets teams ship to both platforms

simultaneously without sacrificing the look and feel of a truly native app. Munjuri Mogi is a staff software engineer at Coinbase, where she has spent five years building and scaling one of the world's most demanding React Native applications. Her work spans performance optimization, reliability engineering, and the developer tooling that keeps large engineering teams moving quickly without sacrificing quality.

In this episode, Mungery joins Josh Goldberg to discuss why React Native has become the framework of choice for high-velocity mobile teams, how Coinbase measures app help, how to

handle data fetching and loading in production, how AI coding agents are changing the day-to-day

workflow for mobile engineers, and more.

This episode is hosted by Josh Goldberg, an independent full-time open-source developer.

Josh works on projects in the

TypeScript ecosystem, most notably TypeScript ESLint, a powerful static analysis tool set for

JavaScript and TypeScript. He is also the author of the O'Reilly Learning TypeScript book,

a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and a co-founder of SquiggleConf,

a conference for excellent web developer tooling. Find Josh on Blue Sky, Fostodon, and dot com as

Joshua K. Goldberg. Hello, everyone. With me today is Manjiri Mowgay, staff software engineer at Coinbase.

Manjiri, welcome to Software Engineering Daily. Thank you. I'm excited. I've been an avid listener,

and yeah, excited to talk to you today.

Great. Well, we're excited to have you here. Let's start off with you. How did you get into coding?

Yeah, so I got into coding pretty late. At least, I like to think that I got into coding pretty late. I am an electronics and telecommunication major,

and we did have coding subjects in engineering,

C-E-C-plus-Jawa, but I never really liked them.

It's probably because my mom was actually into software.

She started coding in 1983 in Kobil,

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