[cageface]

I recommend pinning to exact versions and using a tool like npm-check-updates when you want to upgrade to newer versions of libraries. We had a lot of problems with breakage due to different developers having slightly different versions of dependencies.

React Native is a great platform but it's still very fragile, particularly on Android.

[Matthias247]

I recommend that too. I only used the npm ecosystem for a short time, and still had dozens of silent breakages from libraries which were expected to update in a backward compatible fashion. And even if a dependency itself is pinned to an exact version, it might be that the transitive dependency of this thing changes and breaks. npm shrinkwrap and yarn are supposed to fix that.