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From: Alex Hunt <huntie@meta.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:41:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Move Community CLI discovery config into plugin package
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Summary:
Self-register commands from the `community-cli-plugin` package via `react-native.config.js` — meaning we can remove the redirect within `packages/react-native/react-native.config.js`.

Progress towards removing `community-cli-plugin` as a direct dep of `react-native`, and paired with https://github.com/react-native-community/template/pull/235.

Changelog:
[General][Breaking] - `react-native/community-cli-plugin` will no longer be auto-detected from `react-native`. It must now be specified in `devDependencies`.

Differential Revision: D109869538
---
 packages/community-cli-plugin/package.json     |  3 ++-
 .../react-native.config.js                     | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 packages/react-native/react-native.config.js   |  7 -------
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 packages/community-cli-plugin/react-native.config.js

diff --git a/packages/community-cli-plugin/package.json b/packages/community-cli-plugin/package.json
index 966a8e8385d7..e78407a4513f 100644
--- a/packages/community-cli-plugin/package.json
+++ b/packages/community-cli-plugin/package.json
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
     }
   },
   "files": [
-    "dist"
+    "dist",
+    "react-native.config.js"
   ],
   "scripts": {
     "prepack": "node ../../scripts/build/prepack.js"
diff --git a/packages/community-cli-plugin/react-native.config.js b/packages/community-cli-plugin/react-native.config.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6d3241d4b1a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/community-cli-plugin/react-native.config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *
+ * @format
+ * @noflow
+ */
+
+const {
+  bundleCommand,
+  startCommand,
+} = require('@react-native/community-cli-plugin');
+
+module.exports = {
+  commands: [bundleCommand, startCommand],
+};
diff --git a/packages/react-native/react-native.config.js b/packages/react-native/react-native.config.js
index 713290231165..ec16dec0dab4 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/react-native.config.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/react-native.config.js
@@ -70,13 +70,6 @@ try {
 
 const commands /*: Array<Command> */ = [];
 
-const {
-  bundleCommand,
-  startCommand,
-} = require('@react-native/community-cli-plugin');
-
-commands.push(bundleCommand, startCommand);
-
 const codegenCommand /*: Command */ = {
   name: 'codegen',
   options: [