As agentic coding accelerates, being able to quickly find bugs in all that generated code will be crucial in software engineering in the years to come.
React Native DevTools is seeing strong adoption in the community, which I would attribute to something I call “the default effect”. People gravitate towards the default built-in option if it’s good enough.

That said, the data clearly shows that nothing beats the ye olde console.log, and there’s no indication this will change anytime soon, especially given how useful logging is for both human and agent coders.

Community tools like Reactotron, Radon, and Rozenite are raising the bar. One hard-to-ignore data point is Radon, which has the most polarizing sentiment, suggesting the experience still frustrates as often as it impresses.

But the most interesting part for me is the free-form pain point answers. Network inspecting, memory profiling, and breakpoints consistently come up, highlighting that debugging is still far from being solved in the React Native ecosystem.