Upgrade your React Native to the latest version
Outdated React Native versions increase maintenance cost and limit what your team can build. We’ll upgrade your app safely—across JS, native, and build systems—so it stays reliable and easy to extend.
Why you should always keep your React Native up to date
Every new React Native version includes improvements that impact your users, your developers, and your product velocity. Staying current helps you ship faster and avoid problems that pile up over time.
Latest features
Modern React Native versions unlock new APIs, better tooling, and smoother DX. Staying current gives your team access to the tools the ecosystem is already building around.
Latest features
Modern React Native versions unlock new APIs, better tooling, and smoother DX. Staying current gives your team access to the tools the ecosystem is already building around.
Better performance
Each release includes performance improvements across platforms—from core rendering to Hermes engine enhancements and bundling efficiency.
Better performance
Each release includes performance improvements across platforms—from core rendering to Hermes engine enhancements and bundling efficiency.
Security vulnerabilities
Older versions accumulate unresolved issues, outdated transitive deps, and security risks. Upgrading reduces technical debt and simplifies future work.
Security vulnerabilities
Older versions accumulate unresolved issues, outdated transitive deps, and security risks. Upgrading reduces technical debt and simplifies future work.
Upgraded React Native application for a global coffee brand
A global coffee brand brought their React Native stack up to date after years without upgrades. The project covered RN core, dependencies, navigation, and in-house modules—without breaking feature delivery along the way.
2 years
Age of current React Native version
52
Breaking changes addressed
What can go wrong during a React Native upgrade?
React Native upgrades are often delayed due to concerns about regressions, build failures, or integration debt. Here are the things to watch out for.
Breaking changes
Third-party libraries often introduce breaking changes between versions. When left unaddressed during the upgrade, they can silently break features.
Deprecated features
Some dependencies are no longer maintained or compatible with newer versions. We help replace them with stable, supported options.
New Architecture
Some libraries don’t yet support Fabric or TurboModules. Enable the New Architecture can cause crashes, or prevent builds from completing.
Duplicated packages
Upgrading dependencies can result in multiple versions of the same library being installed, causing inconsistent runtime behavior, crashes, or native build conflicts.
Minimum SDK version
Newer React Native versions require higher Android and iOS SDK targets. If your app or its dependencies don’t support the required versions, it may fail to build—or crash at runtime on certain OS versions.
Regressions
Seemingly unrelated parts of the app can break after an upgrade, even if tests pass. These often appear as layout glitches, navigation issues, or degraded performance during user interactions.
Learn how to upgrade React Native in existing brownfield applications
This is a comprehensive guide to upgrading React Native in brownfield applications, detailing the process from preparation to testing.
- Step-by-step guide to upgrading React Native and its dependencies
- Handling breaking changes on both JavaScript and Native side
- Measuring performance and avoiding regressions
Upgrade your application to latest React Native
Upgrade React Native and all dependencies to the latest versions
We handle the full upgrade process for your app—React Native core, dependencies, native modules, build setup, and project configuration. From version alignment to fixing breaking changes, we ensure your app runs reliably on the latest release.
Enable the latest React Native features
Newer versions unlock improvements in performance, developer tools, and native integration. We ensure your app is ready to adopt features like New Architecture, C++ TurboModules, React Native Factory, and more.
Remove deprecated features and reduce technical debt
We identify and remove unsupported packages, outdated APIs, and legacy project configurations that block upgrades or introduce risk. This cleanup improves long-term maintainability and reduces upgrade effort in the future.
Adapt to market and platform requirements
App stores and platforms regularly raise minimum SDK requirements and enforce new policies. We update your project configuration and dependencies to meet those requirements, so you can stay compliant and avoid release delays.
Why leading companies work with Callstack
Meta Official Partners
We are official Meta partner for React Native, co-organizers of React Conf and hosts of React Universe Conf.
Working at scale
We know how to make React Native work at enterprise scale, both technically and organizationally.
React Native Core Contributors
We don’t just use React Native to build cross-platform apps, we help shape it for millions of developers.
Team at scale
We’re a team of 200+ engineers ready to start fast and scale with your needs.
Enterprise-friendly
We hold ISO certifications and follow strict security standards to make onboarding smooth and compliant.
Wide range of services
As a partner for your full application lifecycle, we offer a full range of services around React and React Native.
FAQs
Upgrading React Native often comes with a long list of questions—from technical risks to timelines and tooling. Here are answers to the most common ones, so you know what to expect before, during, and after your upgrade.
The longer you wait, the more breaking changes and unsupported libraries you accumulate. If you're more than a year behind, expect multiple manual migrations and possible rewrites of native integrations.
Most upgrades take 1–3 weeks, depending on how outdated the stack is, how many custom native modules you use, and whether New Architecture adoption is part of the scope.
Yes, but some versions require step-by-step migration (e.g., for Gradle, Flipper, or Hermes changes). We help you assess whether a direct jump is possible or if a staged upgrade is safer.
We isolate the upgrade in a dedicated branch or flag-gated build, so your main delivery isn’t blocked. Your team can keep shipping features while we handle the upgrade.
Yes. React Native upgrades usually require aligning your dependency tree. We handle version compatibility across packages to avoid breaking runtime behavior.
If you're ready for Fabric, TurboModules, or Bridgeless mode, we can include that as part of the process—but we’ll validate support across your dependencies before flipping the switch.
Running an old version of React Native?
Upgrade isn't optional—it's required to stay compatible with platforms, libraries, and tooling. We’ll help you update your app safely and unlock everything recent versions have to offer.
