You Secured the App. Who's Securing You? (The React Native Developer's Security Guide)

(Work in progress — same as the project it's about. More on that below)

Almost everything written about React Native security is about protecting your users: the shipped app, the phone it runs on. Almost nothing is written about protecting you, the React Native developer.

A React Native project is at least five distinct programming runtimes stitched together. Most developers can name one. The primary target has already shifted: it's no longer your customer, but you and your CI. Your MacBook's security model was never built to protect developers from their own tech stack.

You're the one holding the npm publish token, the GitHub PAT, the iOS distribution cert, the Android upload keystore, the App Store Connect key, and (increasingly) an AI agent with shell access.

Your MacBook is not a walled garden for your own repo