>>> `REACT-NATIVE-FS` IS DEAD! LONG LIVE `REACT-NATIVE-FS` <<<

[birdofpreyru]

Hey folks!

As the surprising number of new issues opened in this repo have buried my announcement (#1197) from 2023, let me re-iterate the obvious — the react-native-fs library has been abandoned by its past maintainers long ago; its last release was in May 2022, when RN was at its v0.68, and we are now in March 2026, at RN v0.84. In 2023, when the latest react-native-fs version stopped working out of the box with the latest RN releases, I have forked it, released as a new library, and I am actively maintaining it still.

You can find my up-to-date version of the library at:

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@dr.pogodin/react-native-fs
GitHub: https://github.com/birdofpreyru/react-native-fs

What puzzles me is how it comes that my fork still has 25k weekly downloads, while the original out-dated library still has 480k weekly downloads — almost 50 times more! 😱 I guess, a bunch of people should consider upgrading their apps to the latest versions of RN and other dependencies 😅