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The React Native Animation Performance Secret: Why Your Animations Jank and How Reanimated 3 Fixes It

• Larry Brooks
• Software, Technology
• 25 Jun, 2026

Your list scrolls smoothly — until a background API call completes and triggers a state update. Suddenly, the scroll animation drops from 60fps to 23fps for 200 milliseconds. Your users feel it. Your