Is rozenite still supported with 0.83.5+ ?

[jdesgagne-onemedical]

Describe the bug

Since I've upgraded to 0.83.5, rozenite is no longer working. The debugger now opens in the React Native DevTools electron app. @V3RON, is rozenite compatible with 0.83.5 ? Thanks!

System Info

System:
  OS: macOS 26.4.1
  CPU: (16) arm64 Apple M3 Max
  Memory: 750.92 MB / 64.00 GB
  Shell:
    version: "5.9"
    path: /bin/zsh
Binaries:
  Node:
    version: 22.12.0
    path: /Users/desgagnj/.nvm/versions/node/v22.12.0/bin/node
  Yarn:
    version: 3.6.4
    path: /Users/desgagnj/.nvm/versions/node/v22.12.0/bin/yarn
  npm:
    version: 10.9.0
    path: /Users/desgagnj/.nvm/versions/node/v22.12.0/bin/npm
  Watchman:
    version: 2025.12.22.00
    path: /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman
Managers:
  CocoaPods:
    version: 1.16.2
    path: /Users/desgagnj/.rvm/gems/ruby-3.2.2/bin/pod
SDKs:
  iOS SDK:
    Platforms:
      - DriverKit 25.2
      - iOS 26.2
      - macOS 26.2
      - tvOS 26.2
      - visionOS 26.2
      - watchOS 26.2
  Android SDK:
    API Levels:
      - "28"
      - "31"
      - "34"
      - "35"
      - "36"
    Build Tools:
      - 35.0.0
      - 36.0.0
    System Images:
      - android-36 | Google Play ARM 64 v8a
    Android NDK: Not Found
IDEs:
  Android Studio: 2025.2 AI-252.28238.7.2523.14688667
  Xcode:
    version: 26.2/17C52
    path: /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
  Java:
    version: 17.0.18
    path: /usr/bin/javac
  Ruby:
    version: 3.3.10
    path: /opt/homebrew/opt/ruby@3.3/bin/ruby
npmPackages:
  "@react-native-community/cli":
    installed: 20.1.2
    wanted: 20.1.2
  react:
    installed: 19.2.0
    wanted: 19.2.0
  react-native:
    installed: 0.83.5
    wanted: 0.83.5
  react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
  "*react-native*": Not Found
Android:
  hermesEnabled: true
  newArchEnabled: true
iOS:
  hermesEnabled: true
  newArchEnabled: true

info React Native v0.85.2 is now available (your project is running on v0.83.5).
info Changelog: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.85.2
info Diff: https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/?from=0.83.5&to=0.85.2
info For more info, check out "https://reactnative.dev/docs/upgrading?os=macos".

Rozenite Version

1.7.0

Reproduction

private repo

Steps to reproduce

1. Run rozenite dev
2. Open RN app
3. Open DevTool
4. Rozenite no longer available

[V3RON]

Hey @jdesgagne-onemedical 👋
The playground app for Rozenite is based on React Native 0.83 (Expo SDK 55) and it loads correctly there. Could you share some additional details on your setup? Do you use Expo? Could you share your Metro config?

[jdesgagne-onemedical]

Hey @V3RON, our app does not use Expo (it's a brownfield app). But looks like you're right, I did test in a standalone (using the react-native-cli) and Rozenite was working fine, so it must be our setup.

here's our metro config: metro.config.js

When I start the metro server , I do see this

[Rozenite] Loaded 3 plugin(s):
[Rozenite]   - @rozenite/mmkv-plugin
[Rozenite]   - @rozenite/network-activity-plugin
[Rozenite]   - @rozenite/performance-monitor-plugin

Welcome to React Native v0.83
Starting dev server on http://localhost:8081

But I don't see anything useful in the logs to explain why rozenite isn't booting up in the React Native DevTools.

[jdesgagne-onemedical]

Actually, we found the culprit. This issue started to happens just before our RN upgrade, when we added expo-update to our brownfield app. Though we do not yet understand why it's no longer working.

[jdesgagne-onemedical]

We found the problem, @react-native/dev-middleware adding an override to 0.83.5 in the "resolution" of the package.json fixed the problem.

[V3RON]

@jdesgagne-onemedical

It sounds like there's more than one instance of @react-native/dev-middleware present in your project, which should never happen. Rozenite will only patch the instance that’s directly accessible from Expo when projectType: expo is set, or from react-native otherwise.

What's your package manager?