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REACT NATIVE CUTS CLI CRUFT, KILLS LEGACY IOS FLAG

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React Native shipped five cleanup PRs overnight that strip dead code, remove published packages no one uses, and finally retire a feature gate that finished rolling out months ago.

The big one: `enableEagerMainQueueModulesOnIOS` is gone [1]. This runtime gate finished its rollout and the team inlined the eager main-queue module setup so it always runs now. That's table stakes for any team maintaining this many moving parts. In parallel, they moved `core-cli-utils` out of the public npm package and into the private/ directory [2], cutting down maintenance surface for a module with zero external consumers. Both moves reflect the kind of hygiene that keeps a codebase from calcifying. They also purged `ViewNativeComponentType` from the type exports [3], standardizing on `React.ElementRef<typeof View>` instead. On the Flow front, they're running variance codemods to shore up readonly annotations [4], catching type safety issues before they hit production. Finally, they killed a macOS debugger shell quirk that was spawning Electron unnecessarily, eliminating an annoying Dock icon flash [5].

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What shipped in Meta on May 23, 2026?
React Native shipped five cleanup PRs overnight that strip dead code, remove published packages no one uses, and finally retire a feature gate that finished rolling out months ago. In total, 13 commits landed.
What were the notable Meta updates?
Remove enableEagerMainQueueModulesOnIOS, make eager main-queue setup always-on (#56933), Move core-cli-utils to private/ as a reference implementation (#56922), and Remove unreferenced ViewNativeComponentType (#56943).
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React Native strips dead config, React compiler fixes exponent folding 21 shipped React Native's generated SwiftPM manifests inherit the app's iOS floor, and SectionList scrolls to the right row 30 shipped React stops emulating bubbling for toggle events, fixes Fragment compareDocumentPosition 9 shipped React Native's Babel preset stops dropping Platform.select side effects 6 shipped

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