Developer Experience
23:26
9/4/2025

Rozenite: The Missing Part of React Native DevTools

Presented
React Universe Conf
Speaker
Szymon Chmal
Software Developer
@
Callstack

React Native DevTools are powerful, but they still lack one crucial piece: extensibility. At React Universe Conf 2025, Szymon Chmal (Senior Software Engineer at Callstack) introduces Rozenite: a framework designed to bring a robust plugin system back to React Native DevTools. Built on top of the existing architecture, Rozenite makes it possible to extend DevTools without forking or hacks.

  • Why Flipper’s plugin system mattered and how its absence in DevTools creates a gap for developers
  • How Rozenite hooks cleanly into DevTools communication without breaking stability
  • Building plugins with sandboxed execution and React-based UIs inside DevTools
  • Official plugins available today: Redux DevTools, TanStack Query, network activity monitoring, performance marks, and more
  • How you can build your own plugins for state machines, analytics, feature flags, or any internal app logic
  • What’s next: Rozenite 1.0 and a growing ecosystem of community-driven plugins

Whether you need better debugging tools for your own app or want to share plugins with the React Native community, Rozenite makes DevTools truly extensible again.

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