Please add react-native-fetch-blob to the base expo client

[seantempesta]

My app is doing a lot of work with media (images and videos) and I can't support background uploads or image/video caching without this package. I'm open to using a different library, but this one seems pretty good.

https://github.com/wkh237/react-native-fetch-blob

Features

• Transfer data directly from/to storage without BASE64 bridging
• File API supports regular files, Asset files, and CameraRoll files
• Native-to-native file manipulation API, reduce JS bridging performance loss
• File stream support for dealing with large file
• Blob, File, XMLHttpRequest polyfills that make browser-based library available in RN (experimental)
• JSON stream supported base on Oboe.js @jimhigson

I think some other users would appreciate this as well:

• [request] Add to Expo? wkh237/react-native-fetch-blob#299
• https://forums.expo.io/t/expo-and-uploading-image-blobs/227

[jesseruder]

We're planning on waiting for this PR facebook/react-native#11417 to make it into React Native. For now I'd recommend detaching if you need this feature.

[BuildWithLal]

waiting for RNFetchBlob to work with Expo...

[brentvatne]

Still waiting on upstream PRs to land @lalzada :( facebook/react-native#11417

If you have any expertise on that and want to step in and help that would be appreciated!

[Nsingh13]

Would really like this feature as well! Wouldn't want to detach just so I can use one native dependency.

[dackom]

Any news on this? :-/

[Nsingh13]

None that I've heard

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[Veeenz]

Still nothing? :\

[anp]

Hi! We're tracking this on Canny now. We're still waiting on facebook/react-native#11417 and facebook/react-native#11573.

[20chix]

any progress?

[somonek]

guys any progress on this? would be so helpful having it included in expo

[anp]

@20chix @somonek please don't ask for status updates when the previous comment to an issue linked to several places you can track the status of a feature.

[hugoh59]

still nothing ====o

[andyngdz]

Any changes? please

[ide]

Some contributors to Expo are helping with the upstream Blob PR to React Native. Please see those linked PRs above.

[MeKyleH]

I don't want to be a pest, but it looks like both PR's above have been merged now. Do we have an ETA on when we can implement blobs in Expo projects?

[ide]

The Blob PR was merged into RN master and will be part of RN 0.54, if the Blob PR does not get reverted. Assuming it is released with RN 0.54 and that RN 0.54 is released when expected (beginning of March), preliminary Blob support will arrive in late March with Expo SDK 27.

[MeKyleH]

Fingers crossed!

[MrGurns]

Subscribing.

[smithaitufe]

Please until then, is there any alternative other than detaching?

[brentvatne]

https://github.com/expo/image-upload-example

[smithaitufe]

@brentvatne I am not uploading. I want to download a video from a remote server and allow the users of my app to share it
I was thinking of using ReactNativeFetchBlob.fs.readFile to read from the remote location, convert it to base64.

A thought just flash in now. I think I should convert to base 64 in the server and simply send the url.
Will that work in my scenario?

[rodrix]

Any news?
I need the react-native-fetch-blob.
I'm stucked with many file manipulation issues, but i don't want eject expo. Dead-lock. ;s

[terribleben]

React Native and Expo landed blob support last march in SDK 26.