Important updates

Re.Pack 4.0.0 is here 🎉

Check out Migration Guide in our fresh new docs at https://re-pack.dev

This release also marks the beginning of unified versioning for all Re.Pack packages

Special thanks to everyone involved in this release! 🙏
@thymikee @RafikiTiki @szymonrybczak @teneeto @troZee @kerm1it @krozniata @HosseinMD @lukemorawski

Major Changes

• #430 0d96b11 Thanks @jbroma! - Upgrade to Node 18, drop support for Node 16

• #530 470a7c1 Thanks @jbroma! - Remove ReactRefreshPlugin in favor of DevelopmentPlugin

• #435 63d973f Thanks @jbroma! - CodeSigningPlugin no longer accepts outputPath property as configuration option, performs the code-signing in-place and integrates nicely with OutputPlugin

• #537 6fa32cb Thanks @jbroma! - Override the default start and bundle CLI commands for enhanced functionality and compatibility with react-native versions >= 0.74. Additionally, this update ensures that running react-native run-ios or react-native run-android will launch the Re.Pack dev server by default instead of the Metro dev server.

• #525 a74930b Thanks @jbroma! - getResolveOptions is now way more compatible with metro-resolver and @react-native/metro-config

  1. getResolveOptions now accepts a second optional parameter called options with the following properties:
     • enablePackageExports - defaults to false
     • preferNativePlatform - defaults to true
  2. Order of extensions was changed to match the order from @react-native/metro-config.
  3. Resolution via Package Exports (exports field in package.json) is now optional and disabled by default.
     It can now be enabled via getResolveOptions options parameter. This change was introduced to match metro defaults.
  4. Default conditionNames are now: ['require', 'import', 'react-native'] and match @react-native/metro-config defaults.

• #495 50a7257 Thanks @troZee! - Add support for New Architecture

• #508 fec8962 Thanks @RafikiTiki! - Fixed deprecated remote debugger integration:

  • Removed vendored code and used middlewares from @react-native-community/cli-server-api
  • Removed package/debugger-app and replaced it with @react-native-community/cli-debugger-ui
  • Removed vendored code responsible for integration with Flipper debugger & custom implementation of the Hermes Inspector Proxy
  • Added integration with @react-native/dev-middleware which enables us to use both Flipper and new experimental debugger

Minor Changes

• #539 8270cb7 Thanks @jbroma! - OutputPlugin now supports configuration with empty object as compilation entry

• #582 24585c0 Thanks @jbroma! - Use localhost as a defined default for the dev-server

• #508 fec8962 Thanks @RafikiTiki! - Added pass-through experimentalDebugger flag to CLI commands to ensure compatibility with Metro and new experimental debugger for React Native

Patch Changes

• #580 b6c68dc Thanks @jbroma! - Make Re.Pack compatible with use_frameworks!

• #491 ebf1b19 Thanks @hosseinmd! - Log error before exit during bundling

• #499 15ffcba Thanks @jbroma! - Support non-classic(e.g. pnpm) paths to HMRClient from react-native

• #496 a59b8ed Thanks @krozniata! - Remove duplicated React-Core dependency from podspec

• #588 b30bca0 Thanks @jbroma! - Keep separate logs for compilation stats specific to each platform

• #612 b6eb0ea Thanks @jbroma! - Update templates to include .cjs and .mjs extensions

• #579 06a4da8 Thanks @jbroma! - Include NativeScriptManger.ts in distributed files for codegen

• #574 bab94bf Thanks @jbroma! - Fix dev server crash caused by uninitialized progress senders

• #555 8fe92be Thanks @jbroma! - Fix getDirname utility function on Windows

• #596 b5ae6ac Thanks @jbroma! - Fix crash when using Node >= 21 for bundling in development

• #556 6c09015 Thanks @jbroma! - Update webpack.config templates

• #515 ee1cc79 Thanks @jbroma! - Use done hook inside of OutputPlugin

• #572 b134936 Thanks @jbroma! - Always match .json extension last during module resolution

• #464 72c770b Thanks @jbroma! - Upgrade TypeScript, ESLint, TypeDoc in the repository

• #567 6417da7 Thanks @kerm1it! - Notify clients on all platforms when sending an HMR event update

• #554 ed82e29 Thanks @jbroma! - Fix path to favicon.ico on Windows