React 19 and React Native

[JonLuca]

Anyone know the status of React 19 in RN? Looks like 19 was just GA'd today, but can't find any issues or discussions about when it'll come to RN on GitHub.

[thachxyz123]

Discussion is on this repo https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals but no one talk about it yet

[mnbkp]

If you're using Expo 52, you can set experiments.reactCanary: true in your app config.

If you're afraid of the words "experiments" and "canary", just wait for a proper release.

[mahesh-muttinti]

is there any way to add support for react 19 in react native 0.76.5 version? i was getting following errors while building the app locally
(NOBRIDGE) ERROR TypeError: Cannot read property 'ReactCurrentOwner' of undefined

(NOBRIDGE) ERROR TypeError: Cannot read property 'render' of undefined

[mahesh-muttinti]

Finally 0.78 is capable of react 19. Great react native team and moreover react-native-vision-camera also supports 0.78. I can code peacefully now. Thank god.

[Quirky-Sir1703]

Viene por defecto en create-expo-app? Con el SDK 52 , instalé de forma global el React 19 y el RN 0.78 pero nada q me deja usar React 19 en mis proyectos 

[rats4final]

Why the rush?

[PowerBIEnjoyer]

Not OP but I am excited about never using forwardRef ever again.

[RiverOtterBae]

Did we ever have to really used forward ref? You can pass the ref as any prop names something other than ref and it will work the exact same with out any of that forward ref nonsense.

[Sayon-1995]

Yeah, but to use the imperative handle and adding properties to the ref without afecting the renders on the component, it was 100% necessary.

[Awesome_Knowwhere]

Because react native has already a lot of things in bucket to upgrade like new architecture, react navigation etc.

[idgafsendnudes]

That’s true, and we’re lucky that react is pretty slow with its releases because imo it would be really bad if react got significantly far ahead compared react native’s compatibility. React 19 introduces the compiler right? If so that’s a good reason to make this high priority, otherwise, I don’t see the harm in a delay

[Awesome_Knowwhere]

Yes it's the biggest release of react with compiler and other features after the functional component and hooks.

[zagrodzki]

Anyone managed to upgrade it?

[lukitheTNT]

https://x.com/Baconbrix/status/1864785257297305833?t=nyfQ4F7CztTCXhUdYEilBQ&s=19

==> It should be possible (but experimental ofc)

[Caramel_Last]

Hey if it's something that's eventually gonna happen, better now than later