microsoft / microsoft/react-native-windows

Consider coalescing community native modules

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Area: Native Modules Area: Performance enhancement Needs: Dev Design Workstream: Performance
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Description

With today's architecture, each native module (that's outside the RNW repo) ends up producing a separate DLL. This could end up creating a large number of DLLs, especially considering the Lean Core effort.

This issue is tracking doing some analysis to determine if a typical RNW app will have too many DLLs, and if so, consider a design for coalescing native modules into fewer DLLs.

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Research direction

Start by analyzing the current architecture for community native modules and measuring how many DLLs a typical React Native Windows app produces. Determine whether the DLL count is excessive, then document a design for coalescing native modules into fewer DLLs if needed.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp, react-native
Domain
build-system, desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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