Appendix
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I. Flow Type to Native Type Mapping
You may use the following table as a reference for which types are supported and what they map to in each platform:
string
Nullable Support? | Android (Java) | iOS |
---|---|---|
?string | String | NSString |
boolean
Nullable Support? | Android (Java) | iOS |
---|---|---|
?boolean | Boolean | NSNumber |
Object literal
This is recommended over using plain Object
, for type safety.
Example: {| foo: string, ... |}
Nullable Support? | Android (Java) | iOS |
---|---|---|
?{| foo: string, ...|} | - | - |
Object
Recommended to use Object literal instead.
Nullable Support? | Android (Java) | iOS |
---|---|---|
?Object | ReadableMap | @{} (untyped dictionary) |
Array<*>
Nullable Support? | Android (Java) | iOS |
---|---|---|
?Array<*> | ReadableArray | NSArray (or RCTConvertVecToArray when used inside objects) |
Function
Nullable Support? | Android (Java) | iOS |
---|---|---|
?Function | - | - |
Promise<*>
Nullable Support? | Android (Java) | iOS |
---|---|---|
?Promise<*> | com.facebook.react.bridge.Promise | RCTPromiseResolve and RCTPromiseRejectBlock |
Type Unions
Type unions are only supported as callbacks.
Example: 'SUCCESS' | 'FAIL'
Nullable Support? | Android (Java) | iOS |
---|---|---|
Only as callbacks. | - | - |
Callbacks
Callback functions are not type checked, and are generalized as Object
s.
Example: () =>
Nullable Support? | Android (Java) | iOS |
---|---|---|
Yes | com.facebook.react.bridge.Callback | RCTResponseSenderBlock |
You may also find it useful to refer to the JavaScript specifications for the core modules in React Native. These are located inside the Libraries/
directory in the React Native repository.
II. TypeScript to Native Type Mapping
You may use the following table as a reference for which types are supported and what they map to in each platform:
TypeScript Type | Nullable Support? | Android (Java) | iOS | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
string | string | null | String | NSString | |
boolean | boolean | null | Boolean | NSNumber | |
Float , Double , or Int32 | No | double | NSNumber | |
{| foo: string, ... |} | {| foo: string, ...|} | null | Object literal. This is recommended over simply using Object, for type safety. | ||
Object | Object | null | ReadableMap | @{} (untyped dictionary) | Recommended to use object literal (see above). |
Array<*> | Array<*> | null | ReadableArray | NSArray (or RCTConvertVecToArray when used inside objects) | |
Function | Function | null | |||
Promise<*> | Promise<*> | null | com.facebook.react.bridge.Promise | RCTPromiseResolve and RCTPromiseRejectBlock | |
Type aliases of the above | Yes | |||
Type Unions 'SUCCESS'|'FAIL' | Only as callbacks. | Type unions only supported as callbacks. | ||
Callbacks: ( ) => | Yes | com.facebook.react.bridge.Callback | RCTResponseSenderBlock | Callback functions are not type checked, and are generalized as Objects. |
You may also find it useful to refer to the JavaScript specifications for the core modules in React Native. These are located inside the Libraries/
directory in the React Native repository.
III. Invoking the code-gen during development
This section contains information specific to v0.66 of React Native.
The Codegen is typically invoked at build time, but you may find it useful to generate your native interface code on demand for troubleshooting.
If you wish to invoke the codegen manually, you have two options:
- Invoking a Gradle task directly (Android).
- Invoking a script manually.
Invoking a Gradle task directly
You can trigger the Codegen by invoking the following task:
./gradlew generateCodegenArtifactsFromSchema --rerun-tasks
The extra --rerun-tasks
flag is added to make sure Gradle is ignoring the UP-TO-DATE
checks for this task. You should not need it during normal development.
The generateCodegenArtifactsFromSchema
task normally runs before the preBuild
task, so you should not need to invoke it manually, but it will be triggered before your builds.
Invoking the script manually
Alternatively, you can invoke the Codegen directly, bypassing the Gradle Plugin or CocoaPods infrastructure. This can be done with the following commands.
The parameters to provide will look quite familiar to you now that you have already configured the Gradle plugin or CocoaPods library.
Generating the schema file
First, you’ll need to generate a schema file from your JavaScript sources. You only need to do this whenever your JavaScript specs change. The script to generate this schema is provided as part of the react-native-codegen
package. If running this from within your React Native application, you can use the package from node_modules
directly:
node node_modules/react-native-codegen/lib/cli/combine/combine-js-to-schema-cli.js \
<output_file_schema_json> <javascript_sources_dir>
The source for the
react-native-codegen
is available in the React Native repository, underpackages/react-native-codegen
. Runyarn install
andyarn build
in that directory to build your ownreact-native-codegen
package from source. In most cases, you will not want to do this as the guide assumes the use of thereact-native-codegen
package version that is associated with the relevant React Native nightly release.
Generating the native code artifacts
Once you have a schema file for your native modules or components, you can use a second script to generate the actual native code artifacts for your library. You can use the same schema file generated by the previous script.
node node_modules/react-native/scripts/generate-specs-cli.js \
--platform <ios|android> \
--schemaPath <generated_schema_json_file> \
--outputDir <output_dir> \
[--libraryName library_name] \
[--javaPackageName java_package_name] \
[--libraryType all(default)|modules|components]
NOTE: The output artifacts of the Codegen are inside the build folder and should not be committed. They should be considered only for reference.
Example
The following is a basic example of invoking the Codegen script to generate native iOS interface code for a library that provides native modules. The JavaScript spec sources for this library are located in a js/
subdirectory, and this library’s native code expects the native interfaces to be available in the ios
subdirectory.
# Generate schema - only needs to be done whenever JS specs change
node node_modules/react-native-codegen/lib/cli/combine/combine-js-to-schema-cli.js /tmp/schema.json ./js
# Generate native code artifacts
node node_modules/react-native/scripts/generate-specs-cli.js \
--platform ios \
--schemaPath /tmp/schema.json \
--outputDir ./ios \
--libraryName MyLibSpecs \
--libraryType modules
In the above example, the code-gen script will generate several files: MyLibSpecs.h
and MyLibSpecs-generated.mm
, as well as a handful of .h
and .cpp
files, all located in the ios
directory.
IV. Note on Existing Apps
This guide provides instructions for migrating an application that is based on the default app template that is provided by React Native. If your app has deviated from the template, or you are working with an application that was never based off the template, then the following sections might help.
Finding your bridge delegate
This guide assumes that the AppDelegate
is configured as the bridge delegate. If you are not sure which is your bridge delegate, then place a breakpoint in RCTBridge
and RCTCxxBridge
, run your app, and inspect self.delegate
.