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fullstackreact/react-native-firestack
A firestack v3 react-native implementation
A React Native bridge to Firebase's native iOS and Android SDKs, predating the official React Native Firebase library. The README opens with a maintenance tombstone — the project is dead and has been since at least 2023. Anyone landing here should be on react-native-firebase instead.
The native bridge approach was correct — wrapping the native SDKs rather than the web SDK avoids the `window` object hack and gets you real native performance. The JS API surface mirrors Firebase's own API closely enough that migration between libraries isn't a full rewrite. The separation of iOS/Android platform files (`firestack.ios.js`, `firestack.android.js`) is clean. Redux integration was a nice touch for the era.
Explicitly unmaintained — the repo itself says so in the first line. Firebase SDK versions it targets are years out of date; auth, storage, and FCM APIs have all changed significantly. Android support was incomplete at abandonment: remoteconfig and messaging were 'mostly-there' per the TODO list. The rsync-into-node_modules instructions for running master are a sign of a project that never solved its own dev workflow.