React Native Version 0.71 Release
Article Summary
React Native 0.71 just dropped with TypeScript as the default, and it's the biggest developer experience upgrade in years. If you're still wrestling with layout spacing or accessibility props, this changes everything.
The React Native team released version 0.71 with six major feature areas spanning type safety, layout improvements, and web standards alignment. This release represents contributions from 70+ developers across 1000+ commits, focusing heavily on reducing friction for mobile developers.
Key Takeaways
- TypeScript now ships by default with built-in types (no more @types/react-native)
- Flexbox gap property finally arrives, eliminating margin hacks for spacing
- ARIA props and web-standard event handlers align React Native with web APIs
- New Architecture build times slashed with Maven Central distribution
- Hermes JSON.parse performance improved by up to 30%
React Native 0.71 eliminates major developer pain points by making TypeScript the default, adding long-requested layout features, and dramatically improving build performance.
About This Article
React Native developers got deprecation warnings that LogBox was filtering out by mistake. This prevented people from migrating away from PropTypes, which were removed in version 0.68. The result was widespread errors when upgrading.
Facebook's React Native team brought PropTypes back in 0.71 and updated the deprecated-react-native-prop-types package. They also fixed LogBox so deprecation warnings would actually show up in the console.
Developers have a clearer path forward now. PropTypes are restored and console logging works properly, which makes it easier to migrate before PropTypes get removed again in future versions.