This MCP server automates React Native CLI project upgrades by providing version management and generating comprehensive migration diffs.

• Fetch Latest Stable Version: Retrieve the most recent production-ready React Native release from GitHub, excluding betas and release candidates

• Access Release Candidates: Get pre-release RC versions for early testing and feature validation

• Generate Upgrade/Downgrade Diffs: Create detailed differences between any two React Native versions using rn-diff-purge, showing:

  • Package.json dependencies and versions

  • iOS configuration (Podfile, xcodeproj settings)

  • Android configuration (build.gradle, settings.gradle)

  • Project structure changes

  • Binary file updates

  • Template file modifications

  • Native code changes

• Automatic Version Detection: Auto-detect the current React Native version from your project's package.json if not explicitly provided

• Migration Guidance: Receive step-by-step instructions for applying upgrades, including dependency updates, configuration changes, binary file handling, and build tool version updates

• Troubleshooting Support: Get package-manager-specific troubleshooting steps including Pod cleanup, Gradle wrapper updates, and dependency reinstallation

• Preserve Custom Code: Apply upgrades while maintaining existing customizations in native code, configuration files, and TypeScript/JavaScript files

Supports React Native Android configuration analysis and upgrade assistance, helping manage Android-specific native code changes during React Native upgrades.

Streamlines Expo React Native app upgrades and configurations, helping developers manage Expo SDK upgrades and configuration changes.

Offers integration capabilities with GitHub Copilot, enhancing the development experience by providing AI-assisted React Native guidance.

Provides tools for handling iOS configurations in React Native projects, assisting with iOS-specific native code changes during React Native upgrades.

Provides platform-specific tools for React Native development on macOS, helping with configuration and upgrade processes.

Enables streamlined React Native development workflows including project initialization, configuration, and AI-assisted development guidance.