Nodejs Mobile React Native

The Node.js for Mobile Apps React Native plugin

Installation

`$ npm install nodejs-mobile-react-native --save`

For iOS, run `pod install` for linking the native code parts:

`$ cd iOS && pod install`

iOS

Universal binaries are included in the plugin, so you can run in both iOS simulators and devices.

`nodejs-mobile-react-native` supports iOS 11.0 or later. In order to archive the application, the deployment target needs to be `iOS 11.0` or later.

Android

You may need to open your app's `/android` folder in `Android Studio`, so that it detects, downloads and cofigures requirements that might be missing, like the `NDK` and `CMake` to build the native code part of the project.

You can also set the environment variable `ANDROID_NDK_HOME`, as in this example:

export ANDROID_NDK_HOME=/Users/username/Library/Android/sdk/ndk-bundle

Usage

`Node.js` project

When `nodejs-mobile-react-native` was installed through npm, it created a `nodejs-assets/nodejs-project/` path inside your application. This path will be packaged with your application and the background project will be started using the `main.js` file inside. It contains a `sample-main.js` and `sample-package.json` files under `nodejs-assets/nodejs-project/`.

The `sample-main.js` and `sample-package.json` files contain a sample echo project. We advise to rename `sample-main.js` to `main.js` and `sample-package.json` to `package.json` to get you started easily.

Attention: The `sample-main.js` and `sample-package.json` will be overwritten with installs/updates of `nodejs-mobile-react-native`.

The sample `main.js` contents:

var rn_bridge = require('rn-bridge');

// Echo every message received from react-native.
rn_bridge.channel.on('message', (msg) => {
  rn_bridge.channel.send(msg);
} );

// Inform react-native node is initialized.
rn_bridge.channel.send("Node was initialized.");

Recent versions of `react-native` (since 0.57) throw an error during the bundling of th