Mobile App Development
Depop
Fashion marketplace app with performant React Native UI and Django backend.
Industry
E-Commerce / Fashion
Platform
Mobile (iOS & Android)
Year
2023
/ Overview
About the project.
Depop is a social fashion marketplace with tens of millions of users buying and selling vintage and secondhand clothing. Developed interactive mobile interfaces using React Native with a Django backend — building performant product browsing experiences for a highly visual, image-heavy marketplace.
Visit live siteSmooth
Scroll performance
Fast
Image-heavy listing loads
Reliable
Transaction APIs
Millions
Active marketplace users
/ Challenge
The problem we had to solve.
Building responsive product browsing and listing interfaces in React Native that handle high volumes of image-heavy fashion listings without impacting scroll performance or load times.
/ Solution
How we turned it into a working product.
Developed React Native screens for product browsing, listing creation, and checkout with optimised image loading and virtualised lists for smooth scrolling, backed by Django APIs for product management, search, and transactions.
/ Technology
Stack behind the build.
The tools and platforms used to ship the product, grouped by responsibility.
Mobile
Backend
/ Team
The delivery team.
3 specialists contributed across delivery, engineering, design, infrastructure, and QA.
/ Goals
Project Goals
Build a fashion marketplace mobile experience that makes discovering and buying secondhand fashion enjoyable — smooth, visual, and fast even when loading pages of image-heavy listings in a busy marketplace feed.
Performant Product Feed
Developed React Native product browsing screens with virtualised lists and optimised image loading — keeping scroll performance smooth even when displaying hundreds of image-heavy fashion listings at once.
Django Marketplace Backend
Built Django APIs for product listings, search, transactions, and user profiles — the reliable data layer behind a fast-moving social fashion marketplace with tens of millions of active users.