BUILDING.md

How to develop

Install dependcies

Install the plugin's dependencies.

yarn install

Link your local package

Link the plugin locally

yarn link

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tsc -w

Then go to your test app root folder and link the plugin.

yarn link "@batch.com/react-native-plugin"

So that Metro can detect modifications outside your node modules, update your app's metro-config.js as following :

const path = require('path');
const batchPath = '../plugin/directory/path';

module.exports = {
    ...
    watchFolders: [path.resolve(__dirname, batchPath)],
};

Do not forget to install pod dependencies if you want to run on ios :

cd ios
pod install

If you had already a metro server instance running, please kill it and start again using --reset-cache option.

If it's not working, maybe try using wml.

Use wml

If linking your local module isn't working, you can use wml to watch your package folder and update modification to your node_modules.

First, install your local module in your test app

yarn add "../plugin/directory/path"

Install wml

npm install -g wml

Add the link to wml

wml add ../plugin/directory/path ./your_test_app/node_modules/@batch.com/react-native-plugin

Start watching

wml start

Make typescript compile files on save

tsc -w