urbi wallet

A proof of concept eth wallet built with React Native (using Expo as long as we can!)

Tricks, wizardry, and black magic

In order to use web3.js, we need a few node.js modules (which aren't by default available in the React Native environment). Hence, we use rn-cli.config.js (loaded via babel.config.ts) and globals.ts to make web3.js pick up modules from node-libs-react-native and vm-browserify. We also use a random bytes implementation taken from this repo, so that we don't need to use react-native-crypto (which uses native libraries, and thus can't be used within Expo).

A postinstall script removes duplicated of bitcore-lib installed in nested node_modules packages, lest it complains about multiple versions being found.

We set the global.self reference to global itself, so that brorand (required by eth-lightwallet) can resolve self and self.crypto, using the aforementioned getRandomBytes() implementation that we're using.

Known issues (will try to keep this up to date)

At the moment, we can't really catch errors raised by the web3.js library, so when you're debugging it's RSOD-fest! Also, it looks like some types of errors completely break React Native's bridge, so you have no other choice but to reload the app. He. Example: try loading a wrong ws address. It will stop responding to UI actions. Neat!