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generatedunixname1395667395051502 ddccf61022 Update React Native DevTools binaries

Summary:
Automated update of React Native DevTools binaries
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Changelog: [Internal]

Reviewed By: huntie

Differential Revision: D104244225

fbshipit-source-id: 5f98f5d3c7f376327cae1aee1668a5cfd5414dd1

2026-05-12 03:41:19 -07:00

__tests__

Fixing typos (#55047 )

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bin

Update React Native DevTools binaries

2026-05-12 03:41:19 -07:00

src

Change all remaining flow legacy casting syntax to modern one (#56259 )

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.gitignore

Fix gitignore paths for debugger-frontend (#54756 )

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package.json

Bump packages to 0.87.0-main following 0.86 cut (#56716 )

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README.md

Scaffold debugger-shell package (#51688 )

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README.md

@react-native/debugger-shell

Experimental Electron-based shell for React Native DevTools. This package is not part of React Native's public API.

Why Electron?

The React Native DevTools frontend is based on Chrome DevTools, which is a web app, but is not particularly portable: it's designed to run in Chromium, and Chromium only. Prior to @react-native/debugger-shell, we would run it in hosted mode in an instance of Chrome or Edge.

Relying on hosted mode presents a variety of UX issues in the debugging workflow, such as the need to ask developers to install a particular browser before they can debug in React Native, and the inability to foreground/reuse existing debugger windows when relaunching the debugger for the same app. In order to address these issues effectively, we fundamentally need to leave the browser sandbox and run the debugger in a shell we can bundle with React Native, and whose behavior we can control.

Electron is a tried-and-tested framework for the specific task of embedding a Chromium browser in a portable, customized shell. As a rule we'll hold a high bar for performance and reliability, and we'll only add features to the shell if they are strictly necessary to complement the DevTools frontend's built-in capabilities.