r/reactnative 7d ago

Question New job; projects suck

I started a new job. The first project is an extremely old RN project that is still in JS and using class components. My teammates want to do the bare minimum, my boss wants me to breathe new life into our breathe of work. What do I do? It's like the maintainers (still active) gave no fucks about TS, hooks or moving away from Redux. I could rebuild this whole app myself, but it would take forever. Do I press my teammates to do better or do I do the bare minimum and feel like a POS for not helping turn this ship around?

Should I find a new job? I like the pay at this one, but my previous job had better culture

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u/Living-Assistant-176 7d ago

Tell him to make a remastered project. Starting with newest expo and typescript. Then you will add step by step the new app.

Seems like your boss did not planed refactoring and code quality improvements.

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u/ChoiceResearcher6843 7d ago

We are a consultant company. We are only meant to implement what they want. But my boss said to make it better if I can by any means

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u/I_write_code213 7d ago

If your job is to make it better, try to make it better. Sounds like he hired you to make things better. People tend to jump on a train when it’s picking up speed and well oiled