If you've built React Native apps for long enough, you've probably fought with file downloads, uploads, and filesystem management. Historically, the community relied on rn-fetch-blob or react-native-fs . While these libraries were absolute lifesavers in their prime, they haven't aged gracefully. They often lack active maintenance, struggle with background persistence, and require a lot of manual boilerplate to manage things like download queues or multipart uploads. Even expo-file-sys...