diff --git a/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/__tests__/fastfs-data b/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/__tests__/fastfs-data
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fe2c63885
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/__tests__/fastfs-data
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ * An arbitrary module header
+ * @providesModule
+ */
+
+ const some: string = 'arbitrary code';
+ const containing: string = 'ūñïčødę';
+
+/**
+ * An arbitrary class that extends some thing
+ * It exposes a random number, which may be reset at the callers discretion
+ */
+class Arbitrary extends Something {
+  constructor() {
+    this.reset();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the random number
+   * @returns number
+   */
+  get random(): number {
+    return this._random;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Re-creates the internal random number
+   * @returns void
+   */
+  reset(): void {
+    this._random = Math.random();
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/__tests__/fastfs-integrated-test.js b/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/__tests__/fastfs-integrated-test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f7fb35588
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/__tests__/fastfs-integrated-test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ */
+'use strict';
+
+jest.autoMockOff();
+
+const Fastfs = require('../fastfs');
+
+const {EventEmitter} = require('events');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+
+const fileName = path.resolve(__dirname, 'fastfs-data');
+const contents = fs.readFileSync(fileName, 'utf-8');
+
+describe('fastfs:', function() {
+  let fastfs;
+  const crawling = Promise.resolve([fileName]);
+  const roots = [__dirname];
+  const watcher = new EventEmitter();
+
+  beforeEach(function(done) {
+    fastfs = new Fastfs('arbitrary', roots, watcher, {crawling});
+    fastfs.build().then(done);
+  });
+
+  describe('partial reading', () => {
+    // these are integrated tests that read real files from disk
+
+    pit('reads a file while a predicate returns true', function() {
+      return fastfs.readWhile(fileName, () => true).then(readContent =>
+        expect(readContent).toEqual(contents)
+      );
+    });
+
+    pit('invokes the predicate with the new chunk, the invocation index, and the result collected so far', () => {
+      const predicate = jest.genMockFn().mockReturnValue(true);
+      return fastfs.readWhile(fileName, predicate).then(() => {
+        let aggregated = '';
+        const {calls} = predicate.mock;
+        expect(calls).not.toEqual([]);
+
+        calls.forEach((call, i) => {
+          const [chunk] = call;
+          aggregated += chunk;
+          expect(chunk).not.toBe('');
+          expect(call).toEqual([chunk, i, aggregated]);
+        });
+
+        expect(aggregated).toEqual(contents);
+      });
+    });
+
+    pit('stops reading when the predicate returns false', () => {
+      const predicate = jest.genMockFn().mockImpl((_, i) => i !== 0);
+      return fastfs.readWhile(fileName, predicate).then((readContent) => {
+        const {calls} = predicate.mock;
+        expect(calls.length).toBe(1);
+        expect(readContent).toBe(calls[0][2]);
+      });
+    });
+
+    pit('after reading the whole file with `readWhile`, `read()` still works', () => {
+      // this test allows to reuse the results of `readWhile` for `readFile`
+      return fastfs.readWhile(fileName, () => true).then(() => {
+        fastfs.readFile(fileName).then(readContent =>
+          expect(readContent).toEqual(contents)
+        );
+      });
+    });
+
+    pit('after reading parts of the file with `readWhile`, `read()` still works', () => {
+      return fastfs.readWhile(fileName, () => false).then(() => {
+        fastfs.readFile(fileName).then(readContent =>
+          expect(readContent).toEqual(contents)
+        );
+      });
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/fastfs.js b/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/fastfs.js
index ca01b86c8..f33b99278 100644
--- a/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/fastfs.js
+++ b/packager/react-packager/src/DependencyResolver/fastfs.js
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ const {EventEmitter} = require('events');
 const fs = require('graceful-fs');
 const path = require('path');
 
+const open = Promise.denodeify(fs.open);
 const readFile = Promise.denodeify(fs.readFile);
 const stat = Promise.denodeify(fs.stat);
 
@@ -114,6 +115,14 @@ class Fastfs extends EventEmitter {
     return file.read();
   }
 
+  readWhile(filePath, predicate) {
+    const file = this._getFile(filePath);
+    if (!file) {
+      throw new Error(`Unable to find file with path: ${filePath}`);
+    }
+    return file.readWhile(predicate);
+  }
+
   closest(filePath, name) {
     for (let file = this._getFile(filePath).parent;
          file;
@@ -241,6 +250,44 @@ class File {
     return this._read;
   }
 
+  readWhile(predicate) {
+    const CHUNK_SIZE = 512;
+    let result = '';
+
+    return open(this.path, 'r').then(fd => {
+      /* global Buffer: true */
+      const buffer = new Buffer(CHUNK_SIZE);
+      const p = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+        let counter = 0;
+        const callback = (error, bytesRead) => {
+          if (error) {
+            reject();
+            return;
+          }
+
+          const chunk = buffer.toString('utf8', 0, bytesRead);
+          result += chunk;
+          if (bytesRead > 0 && predicate(chunk, counter++, result)) {
+            readChunk(fd, buffer, callback);
+          } else {
+            if (bytesRead === 0 && !this._read) { // reached EOF
+              this._read = Promise.resolve(result);
+            }
+            resolve(result);
+          }
+        };
+        readChunk(fd, buffer, callback);
+      });
+
+      p.catch(() => fs.close(fd));
+      return p;
+    });
+
+    function readChunk(fd, buffer, callback) {
+      fs.read(fd, buffer, 0, CHUNK_SIZE, null, callback);
+    }
+  }
+
   stat() {
     if (!this._stat) {
       this._stat = stat(this.path);