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React Native 0.79: Hold Onto Your Keyboards!
React Native 0.79 (April 2025) is here, and it’s a doozy. This release is packed with performance wins and developer-friendly tweaks across the board. In plain terms: it just got way cooler to build RN apps. Metro (the JS bundler) now starts up around 3× faster thanks to deferred hashing, and it fully supports modern package.json exports/imports fields out of the box. Android apps launch much quicker (we’re talking ~400ms shaved off in some tests), and iOS native modules can be registered with Swift-friendly codegen, cutting boilerplate. Under the hood, RN’s JavaScriptCore (JSC) engine has been moved into a community package for faster updates, and legacy Chrome remote debugging is gone in favor of newer DevTools. Plus, React 19 is the default React version now – unlocking shiny new hooks like Actions and useOptimistic. And if you’ve been following along, React Native’s “New Architecture” (Fabric/TurboModules) is already on by default and now rock-solid. Bottom line: RN 0.79 is all about speed, modern tooling, and slick developer experiences. Let’s dive into the highlights!
React Native 0.79 (April 2025) is here, and it’s a doozy. This release is packed with performance wins and developer-friendly tweaks across the board. In plain terms: it just got way cooler to build RN apps. Metro (the JS bundler) now starts up around 3× faster thanks to deferred hashing, and it fully supports modern package.json exports/imports fields out of the box. Android apps launch much quicker (we’re talking ~400ms shaved off in some tests), and iOS native modules can be registered with Swift-friendly codegen, cutting boilerplate.
Under the hood, RN’s JavaScriptCore (JSC) engine has been moved into a community package for faster updates, and legacy Chrome remote debugging is gone in favor of newer DevTools.
Plus, React 19 is the default React version now – unlocking shiny new hooks like Actions and useOptimistic. And if you’ve been following along, React Native’s “New Architecture” (Fabric/TurboModules) is already on by default and now rock-solid.
Bottom line: RN 0.79 is all about speed, modern tooling, and slick developer experiences. Let’s dive into the highlights!
