Upgrading React-Native

Keeping up with the different versions is important, both for security and support.

React-native versioning#

React-native does not follow semver and are quite happy to break their API without bumping major versions. This is a feature, not a bug.

Auto-upgrading#

Command: npx react-native upgrade 0.XX.X
Upgrades react-native to the specified version automatically. This however, when the react-native team has introduced changes in files that this project also has changed, may fail. It is possible to automatically upgrade some percentage of the application, however, this may cause issues that are hard to detect.

Resources#

Upgrade Helper is a resource giving you the diff between your version and the new version if the auto-upgrader fails to apply the diff automatically.