What tools do you use to debug and profile your React Native apps?
Debugging and profiling experience & sentiment
Debugging and profiling experience & sentiment
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When you are learning a new tool, your first instinct is to print something to the console. And, for a reason. The ol’ reliable logs work just fine for quick debugging. In React Native 0.77, Meta made the controversial decision to remove logs from Metro, which were immediately brought back behind the --client-logs flag. The king is dead, long live the king! Flipper, once a powerful but frustrating tool to set up, was officially retired in React Native 0.74. It had the most negative sentiment out of all tools covered in the 2024 survey. In return in React Native 0.76 Meta introduced the new default React Native debugging experience – React Native DevTools. We expect them to grow in popularity in the future, especially with the promise of a built-in network inspector and profiling. As our favourite cliché says: “React Native is Native” so you can rely on native tooling built into Android Studio and Xcode which we often do. There are a number of interesting tools developed by the React Native community: the Reactotron, Radon IDE and Flashlight, that have a potential to gain more traction in the upcoming years.
Kacper Kapuściak & Bartłomiej Błoniarz
Software engineers at Software Mansion
Other solutions
Other solutions
Other debugging and profiling solutions
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What other solutions not mentioned above have you used in your React Native apps?
Debugging intent
Debugging intent
Debugging intent
What do you want to do when debugging your app?
Debugging and profiling pain points
Debugging and profiling pain points
Debugging and profiling pain points
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What pain points have you encountered with debugging and profiling your React Native projects? If applicable, point out the specific solution and its problems.