diff --git a/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/Android.mk b/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/Android.mk
index ff709c72ec4..57c51b2ec4c 100644
--- a/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/Android.mk
+++ b/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/Android.mk
@@ -21,9 +21,10 @@ LOCAL_CFLAGS += -fexceptions -frtti -std=c++17 -Wall
 
 LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES :=
 
-LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES := glog libglog_init
+LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES := glog libglog_init libreact_debug
 
 include $(BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY)
 
 $(call import-module,glog)
 $(call import-module,fbgloginit)
+$(call import-module,react/debug)
diff --git a/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/BUCK b/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/BUCK
index a540e678610..f3f426baff9 100644
--- a/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/BUCK
+++ b/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/BUCK
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ rn_xplat_cxx_library(
         "//xplat/fbsystrace:fbsystrace",
         "//xplat/folly:headers_only",
         "//xplat/folly:memory",
+        react_native_xplat_target("react/debug:debug"),
     ],
 )
 
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ fb_xplat_cxx_test(
     deps = [
         "//xplat/folly:molly",
         "//xplat/third-party/gmock:gtest",
+        react_native_xplat_target("react/debug:debug"),
         react_native_xplat_target("react/renderer/mapbuffer:mapbuffer"),
     ],
 )
diff --git a/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/MapBufferBuilder.cpp b/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/MapBufferBuilder.cpp
index 5ce5b586122..bed8ab88d5c 100644
--- a/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/MapBufferBuilder.cpp
+++ b/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/MapBufferBuilder.cpp
@@ -33,12 +33,9 @@ MapBufferBuilder::MapBufferBuilder(uint16_t initialSize) {
 
 void MapBufferBuilder::ensureKeyValueSpace() {
   int oldKeyValuesSize = keyValuesSize_;
-  if (keyValuesSize_ >= std::numeric_limits<uint16_t>::max() / 2) {
-    LOG(ERROR)
-        << "Error: trying to assign a value beyond the capacity of uint16_t"
-        << static_cast<uint32_t>(keyValuesSize_) * 2;
-    abort();
-  }
+  react_native_assert(
+      (keyValuesSize_ >= std::numeric_limits<uint16_t>::max() / 2) &&
+      "Error trying to assign a value beyond the capacity of uint16_t");
   keyValuesSize_ *= 2;
   uint8_t *newKeyValues = new Byte[keyValuesSize_];
   uint8_t *oldKeyValues = keyValues_;
diff --git a/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/MapBufferBuilder.h b/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/MapBufferBuilder.h
index 39e43b536c9..31bfea18198 100644
--- a/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/MapBufferBuilder.h
+++ b/ReactCommon/react/renderer/mapbuffer/MapBufferBuilder.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 #pragma once
 
+#include <react/debug/react_native_assert.h>
 #include <react/renderer/mapbuffer/MapBuffer.h>
 #include <react/renderer/mapbuffer/primitives.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>