🎉 React Native 0.83 is live
React Native 0.83 is out and it is one of the smoothest upgrades in recent releases. It ships with React 19.2, DevTools improvements, and no user-facing breaking changes.
This release introduces new React APIs like <Activity> and useEffectEvent, along with major DevTools upgrades including network inspection, performance tracing, and a new standalone desktop DevTools app that no longer depends on the browser.
React Native 0.83 also stabilizes Web Performance APIs, adds Intersection Observer support in Canary, and continues performance work with Hermes V1. For apps already using the New Architecture, there is an experimental option to compile out the Legacy Architecture on iOS, reducing build times and app size.
Standalone React Native Dev Tool in 0.8
If you are on React Native 0.82, upgrading to 0.83 should finally be straightforward. After years of painful and risky upgrades, this marks a huge milestone for React Native and a strong signal that the platform is becoming more stable and predictable.
👉 Read the full release notes:
https://reactnative.dev/blog/2025/12/10/react-native-0.83
Software Mansion Survey: State of React Native 2025
🧭 State of React Native 2025 Survey is Open
The State of React Native 2025 survey is now live - and it’s a special one. This year marks 10 years of React Native, and also the moment when the New Architecture officially became the default.
The survey focuses on what makes React Native uniquely React Native:
styling, navigation, performance, testing, tooling, and the day-to-day developer experience. Your answers will directly influence the future direction of the ecosystem, with public results shared after the survey closes.
If you use React Native, this is one of the most impactful ways to give feedback to maintainers, library authors, and the core team.
👉 Do your part and take the survey:
https://survey.2025.stateofreactnative.com/
🎁 New Releases
📦 react-native-nitro-mix@0.2.0 introduces better control over conversations with a new
additionalContextoption and built-in message history management, making it easier to manage richer, stateful interactions with the library.📦 [email protected] fixes Nitro view template and Turborepo configuration issues, while also bumping React Native support to 0.83, keeping newly generated libraries aligned with the latest RN tooling.
📦 [email protected] adds new storage utilities like
existsMMKV,deleteMMKV, andimportAllFrom, alongside test fixes, slimmer iOS pods, and updated documentation for a cleaner and more flexible MMKV setup.📦 [email protected] introduces a new
KeyboardAvoidingLegendListfor smoother keyboard handling, alongside fixes for stale item overlap and noisykeyExtractorwarnings in lazy list mode.📦 [email protected] adds a public
updateInsetsAPI and introduces Vite support for web, along with fixes to React compiler memoization and baseline positioning plus performance improvements to stylesheet updates.📦 [email protected] adds Android support with real-time speech transcription on Android 13+ (API 33), bringing live transcription to both iOS and Android, alongside updated docs and refreshed example UI.
📦 react-native-quick-crypto marks a stable release by reaching feature parity with the legacy 0.x branch, unlocking the full API surface on the new 1.x line and setting a solid foundation for future development.
📦 sheet-navigator lets you treat bottom sheets as real navigation screens, enabling declarative presentation, dismissal, and resizing with full React Navigation and Expo Router support.
📦 react-native-iap introduces built-in purchase verification powered by IAPKit, enabling secure, server-side receipt validation for Apple and Google via a single API call—no backend setup required.
📦 react-native-reanimated-worklets brings major improvements including custom serialization support, new C++ APIs for WorkletRuntime access and scheduling, Jest mocks, and better web bundle optimization, alongside breaking API cleanups and expanded documentation.
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Happy Friday and see you next week!
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