Run animations in React and React Native from one codebase

The article explores how to utilize React Native's file resolution system and the react-spring animation library to create a unified codebase that supports animations across both web and mobile platforms using React and React Native. It highlights the challenge of differing APIs for animations between web and mobile, and provides a solution by demonstrating the development of a sample app where a single codebase can perform animations on both platforms. The key technique involves using platform-specific file extensions for components and leveraging react-spring's cross-platform capabilities to achieve consistent animations. By structuring components like Box and Text to adapt to platform-specific requirements and employing the useSpring hook from react-spring, developers can efficiently manage animations and ensure uniformity across platforms. The article also notes a limitation in that only CSS properties supported by both React and React Native can be animated this way, necessitating separate code for unsupported properties.