# itinance/react-native-fs

Native filesystem access for react-native

Repository: https://github.com/itinance/react-native-fs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-native-fs
Language: C++
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react-native, filesystem, download
Last push: 2024-03-18T00:17:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4135, "days_push": 899, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5043, forks 1012 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:08.859872+00:00)

## What it is
A React Native library providing native filesystem access on iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS. It offers APIs for reading, writing, deleting, and uploading/downloading files from JavaScript.

## Use cases
- download files to device storage in a react native app
- read and write local files from javascript
- upload files to a server from mobile
- access the app documents directory on ios and android
- manage local file storage in react native
- save downloaded images or pdfs to the filesystem

## When to choose
- you need native file read/write access in a React Native app
- you need background or resumable downloads on iOS/Android
- you want a mature, widely used RN filesystem module with MIT license

## When to avoid
- you are building with Expo and don't want native modules (use expo-file-system)
- you need full Android filesystem access beyond the app's files directory
- you are starting a new project and prefer actively maintained alternatives like react-native-blob-util

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: file-system, file-upload
- domain: mobile-development, files, cross-platform
- platform: windows
- tags: react-native, native-modules, download-manager, file-access, ios, android, macos

## Member repositories
- itinance/react-native-fs (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:08.859872+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:17:23.336772+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/itinance/react-native-fs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:08.859872+00:00, sha 68c9c87cf8e4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.