Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/53438
Changelog: [Internal]
Makes `flavor: 'prebuilt'` the default mode of launching the RNDT standalone shell, and the *only* mode supported in the published version of the package. See D78351931 for more context.
With this, we can demote `electron` from `dependencies` to `devDependencies`. This makes it possible to make `debugger-shell` a dependency of `dev-middleware` (and thus of all major frameworks) without significantly impacting `npm install` times. We'll add this dependency on `debugger-shell` in an upcoming diff (D78351937).
We also stop publishing the `dist/electron` subdirectory (and `src/electron` for good measure) since the corresponding code will always be bundled into the prebuilt binary instead.
Reviewed By: huntie
Differential Revision: D78351934
fbshipit-source-id: 2a4b03e852c4d0330250567c41dca09d1c4f3abd
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/53436
Changelog: [Internal]
Adds a `flavor` option to `unstable_spawnDebuggerShellWithArgs` to select between two modes:
1. `flavor: 'dev'` (current behaviour) - launching a stock Electron binary (from the `electron` package) and pointing it directly at the shell code from the `src/electron` directory.
2. `flavor: 'prebuilt'` (new in this diff) - launching the prebuilt React Native DevTools binary included in the package (built continuously at Meta and committed as a DotSlash file in automated diffs e.g. D79836825). Note that this binary includes Electron *and* a frozen version of the shell code from `src/electron`.
Going forward, `'dev'` will only be used when developing the package (e.g. in D78351934 we will move `electron` to `devDependencies`). The published version of the package is only intended to work with `flavor: 'prebuilt'`.
Reviewed By: huntie
Differential Revision: D78351931
fbshipit-source-id: d0e66b54c142dc2910619ba3d6d149d88324c872
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/52706
This just prepares the repo for the next branch cut.
Changelog:
[Internal] [Changed] -
Reviewed By: cipolleschi
Differential Revision: D78558445
fbshipit-source-id: 2132d560dad447b3685874438387a519587f8554
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/52678
From partner feedback, there's still appetite to support Node 20.x for the next <1y of life. Lower min version to `20.19.4` (Jul 2025) and widen test matrix in CI.
Changelog:
[General][Breaking] - Our new minimum Node version is Node.js 20 (Overrides #51840)
Reviewed By: cortinico
Differential Revision: D78494491
fbshipit-source-id: c8d9dc6250cb11f8a12ca7e761b65f4a8dae9265
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/52359
This is needed ahead of the 81 branch cut.
Changelog:
[Internal] - Bump all packages to 0.81.0-main
Reviewed By: huntie
Differential Revision: D77602196
fbshipit-source-id: 1b52a7d1577783d72aba8d20f98032f29ffcc7df
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/52357
Changelog: [Internal]
Adds a hyper-minimal build script using `electron/packager` that produces custom binaries for the experimental React Native DevTools standalone shell. The main user-facing benefit of this is replacing the Electron name and icon with our own branding.
NOTE: `electron/packager` is designed to include the application code in the resulting binary. This is arguably overkill for us - the current launch model of `electron src/electron/index.js` is actually wholly sufficient for what we need - but I decided to go with the grain of the available tooling for simplicity.
Icon design courtesy of huntie. 🙏
Reviewed By: huntie
Differential Revision: D77591742
fbshipit-source-id: a968465df4f54fba54c874b6300788e151600ed7
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/51840
Bumps the minimum version of Node.js in React Native to the current active LTS release (22.x, upgraded from 18.x which is now out of support).
- CI configurations are reduced from `[22, 20, 18]` to `[24, 22]`.
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See https://nodejs.org/en/about/previous-releases.
Changelog:
[General][Breaking] - Our new minimum Node version is Node.js 22
Reviewed By: yungsters, cortinico
Differential Revision: D76037015
fbshipit-source-id: b6e4b3ee279a9a93d716a13297420bba73f45250
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/51694
Changelog: [Internal]
D74820232 was missing an `exports` entry for `debugger-shell/package.json`, which is needed for some of our build tooling.
Reviewed By: hoxyq
Differential Revision: D75679347
fbshipit-source-id: 8deaf55ce354afcff410104948cad1b9a30093b7
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/51688
Changelog: [Internal]
# Context
See D74904547.
## This diff
Creates the `react-native/debugger-shell` package, containing a basic implementation of an Electron-based shell for React Native DevTools. At this point, there is no direct dependency on the new package from the rest of React Native - it's designed to be used as part of a Meta-internal experimental rollout of the new debugger shell via the `BrowserLauncher` interface in `dev-middleware`.
Reviewed By: huntie
Differential Revision: D74820232
fbshipit-source-id: cb06ea9e2ed8c8822019cad8296cc19e69f9db0b
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