How to remove console statements from React Native apps

September 29, 2022

How to remove console statements from React Native apps

How to use it

I have"@babel/core": "^7.5.5"and"react-native": "^0.63"
The approach described in React Native Documentationwas not working for me.

After many try and error and exploring issues on GitHub I got it working :

In babel.config.js add this -

module.exports = api => {
  const babelEnv = api.env();
  const plugins = [];
  //change to 'production' to check if this is working in 'development' mode
  if (babelEnv !== 'development') {
    plugins.push(['transform-remove-console', {exclude: ['error', 'warn']}]);
  }
  return {
    presets: ['module:metro-react-native-babel-preset'],
    plugins,
  };
};

To see changes run using npm start -- --reset-cache