feat(react-native): Document standalone app start tracing and extend app start API#18635
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…app start API Adds a "Standalone App Start Tracing" section covering the experimental `enableStandaloneAppStartTracing` option, the dedicated `app.start` transaction, app-start sample rate via `tracesSampler`, and the `extendAppStart` / `getExtendedAppStartSpan` / `finishExtendedAppStart` extend API.
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Keeps the PR diff limited to the new Standalone App Start Tracing section (prettier had reformatted pre-existing code samples in the same file).
Metro doesn't support top-level await; wrap the async launch work in an async function so the example is copy-pasteable into an app entry file.
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Documents the React Native standalone app start feature and the extend app start API, under
tracing/instrumentation/automatic-instrumentation. Mirrors the structure/terminology of the existing Apple standalone app start docs.Adds a new "Standalone App Start Tracing" section covering:
_experiments.enableStandaloneAppStartTracingoption (shipped in RN SDK 8.17.0) and the dedicatedapp.starttransaction it emits (decoupled from navigation).tracesSamplerkeyed on the transaction name.extendAppStart/getExtendedAppStartSpan/finishExtendedAppStart) to include post-init work, with child-span breakdown and the 30s auto-finish deadline.Relates to getsentry/sentry-react-native#6017.
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The "Extending the App Launch" sub-section documents an API that has not shipped yet — it lands with getsentry/sentry-react-native#6392 in RN SDK 8.18.0. The version in that sub-section's alert (
8.18.0) and the inline{/* TODO */}should be confirmed once that release goes out. The standalone-tracing portion is already available in 8.17.0.IS YOUR CHANGE URGENT?
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