Update react-native types to comply to RN 0.72

[gvarandas]

Description

• Update types to complain with the updated react-native types shipped as part of 0.72.
• Add an npm script to verify types are sound without having to build the package.

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No actual changes are being shipped as part of it, except for type changes.

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[gvarandas]

@fortmarek @naqvitalha FYI this PR might affect which RN versions the library supports, given that users might run into TS issues in case they haven't upgraded. We should carefully consider this before releasing it into the wild.

[fortmarek]

Maybe we can remove this dependency completely now that react-native ships with types?

[gvarandas]

In order to do that, we'd need to declare react-native as a devDependency instead. It's a more future-proof alternative, I believe, as I'm not really sure how long the @types/react-native lib will be actively maintained now that we have official support for TS in the original repo.

[gvarandas]

For this PR, it should be fine as-is, I believe.

[fortmarek]

It's a more future-proof alternative, I believe, as I'm not really sure how long the @types/react-native lib will be actively maintained now that we have official support for TS in the original repo.

IIRC, that dependency will no longer be updated from 0.73 onwards. I agree we can keep as-is for this PR, though.

[fortmarek]

FYI this PR might affect which RN versions the library supports, given that users might run into TS issues in case they haven't upgraded.

To avoid breakage, instead of reusing the RN types, we can change the type to correspond to the new one. Or is the type change itself a breaking change?

[gvarandas]

@fortmarek it really depends on how far we want to go with backwards compatibility. The updated types are more permissive in this case (they add the 'auto' type for dimension values), so it shouldn't be an issue overall. It is, however, really hard to guarantee that everything will work with super old RN versions.

[fortmarek]

The updated types are more permissive in this case (they add the 'auto' type for dimension values), so it shouldn't be an issue overall. It is, however, really hard to guarantee that everything will work with super old RN versions.

If that's the case, I'd ship this. While we don't have an official support window, I don't think we should try to support really old RN versions.