wm-reactnative-cli

A command line utility to build react native apps created using WaveMaker product.

The main goal of wm-reactnative-cli is to simplify generation of APK or IPA for WaveMaker developers. wm-reactnative-cli combines multiple react-native commands into a single command. First, one has to make sure all the required hardware and software are available and installed. Then execute the command with the appropriate values for arguments.

Command to Install

npm install -g @wavemaker/wm-reactnative-cli

Android Build

Requirements

• Linux or MAC or Windows
• Node 14.x (https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v14.15.1/)
• GIT (https://git-scm.com/download)
• Java 11 (https://openjdk.org/install/)
• Yarn (npm install -g yarn)
• Gradle 7 (https://gradle.org/releases/)
• Expo cli 5.4.4 (npm install -g expo-cli@5.4.4)
• Make sure JAVA_HOME, ANDROID_SDK and GRADLE_HOME are set in the environment variables and also in PATH.

Adding Environment Variables

For Windows

• Go to System Setting and Select Environment Varialbes.

  

• Select New Variable under System section and add variables and their respective paths.

For Linux/MAC

• use nano ~/.bashrc then add the following at the end of the file (after updating the paths) and save it.

export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64"
export ANDROID_HOME="/usr/lib/android-sdk"
export ANDROID_SDK="/usr/lib/android-sdk"
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT="/usr/lib/android-sdk"
export GRADLE_HOME="$HOME/gradle/gradle-7.5.1"

Command

wm-reactnative build android <src_dir> [additional_arguments]

Argument	Description
src_dir	DEFAULT: current working directory. Path to the reactnative expo zip (or) path to the reactnative expo project folder.
--dest	OPTIONAL: directory where the app has to be copied and built. If it is not specified then .wm-reactnative-cli folder inside the home directory, will contain the build folders
--auto-eject	OPTIONAL: On setting this flag to true, expo eject will be invoke automatically.
--aKeyStore	Absolute path of the key store. If keystore is not given then android debug key is used.
--aStorePassword	Password to key store
--aKeyAlias	Alias name of the key
--aKeyPassword	Key Password
--buildType	DEFAULT: development development or production Use ‘production’ with keystore specified.

Example 1

wm-reactnative build android "/path/to/src"

Example 2

wm-reactnative build android "/path/to/src" \
--dest="/path/to/dest" \
--aKeyStore="/path/to/file.keystore" \
--aStorePassword="store_password" \
--aKeyAlias="key_alias_name" \
--aKeyPassword="key" \
--buildType="production"
--auto-eject=true

IOS build

Requirements

• MAC machine
• Latest XCODE
• CocoaPods (https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/getting-started.html#toc_3)
• Node 14.x (https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v12.22.0/)
• GIT (https://git-scm.com/download/mac)
• Yarn (npm install -g yarn)
• Expo cli 5.4.4 (npm install -g expo-cli@5.4.4)
• Apple developer or distribution P12 certificates
• Provisioning profile
• Install wm-reactnative-cli (npm install -g @wavemaker/wm-reactnative-cli)
• For development build, development certificate and development provisioning file are required.
• For production build, distribution certificate and distribution provisioning file are required.

NOTE: Before building an app, please make sure that neither iPhone nor iPad is not connected to Mac.

Command

wm-reactnative build ios <src_dir> [additional_arguments]

Argument	Description
src_dir	DEFAULT: current working directory. Path to the reactnative expo zip (or) path to the reactnative expo project folder.
--dest	OPTIONAL: directory where the app has to be copied and built. If it is not specified then .wm-reactnative-cli folder inside the home directory, will contain the build folders
--auto-eject	OPTIONAL: On setting this flag to true, expo eject will be invoke automatically.
--iCertificate	Absolute path of P12 certificate location
--iCertificatePassword	Password to unlock the certificate.
--iProvisioningFile	Absolute path of provisioning file
--iCodeSigningIdentity	Signing certificate name in keychain access
--buildType	DEFAULT: development development or production Use ‘production’ with an AppStore distribution certificate.

Example

wm-reactnative build ios "/path/to/src" \
--iCertificate="/path/to/distribution.p12" \
--iCertificatePassword="unlock_password" \
--iProvisioningFile="/path/to/profile.mobileprovision" \
--iCodeSigningIdentity="certificate name in keychain access" \
--buildType="production"

Run Expo

Requirements

• Node 14.x
• GIT (https://git-scm.com/download)
• npm 7.20.x
• Yarn (npm install -g yarn)
• Expo cli 5.4.4 (npm install -g expo-cli@5.4.4)

Command

wm-reactnative run expo <preview_url> [additional_arguments]

Argument	Description
preview_url	app preview url
--clean	DEFAULT: false if true, existing project directory is removed

Run web-preview

Requirements

• Node 14.x
• GIT (https://git-scm.com/download)
• npm 7.20.x
• Yarn (npm install -g yarn)
• Expo cli 5.4.4 (npm install -g expo-cli@5.4.4)

Command

wm-reactnative run web-preview <preview_url> [additional_arguments]

Argument	Description
preview_url	app preview url
--clean	DEFAULT: false if true, existing project directory is removed

Run Android

• Linux or MAC or Windows
• Node 14.x (https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v14.15.1/)
• GIT (https://git-scm.com/download)
• Java 11 (https://openjdk.org/install/)
• Yarn (npm install -g yarn)
• Gradle 7 (https://gradle.org/releases/)
• Expo cli 5.4.4 (npm install -g expo-cli@5.4.4)
• Make sure JAVA_HOME, ANDROID_SDK and GRADLE_HOME are set in the environment variables and also in PATH.

Command

wm-reactnative run android <preview_url> [additional_arguments]

Argument	Description
preview_url	app preview url
--clean	DEFAULT: false if true, existing project directory is removed

Run iOS

Requirements

• MAC machine
• Latest XCODE
• CocoaPods (https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/getting-started.html#toc_3)
• Node 14.x (https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v12.22.0/)
• GIT (https://git-scm.com/download/mac)
• Yarn (npm install -g yarn)
• Expo cli 5.4.4 (npm install -g expo-cli@5.4.4)

Command

wm-reactnative run ios <preview_url> [additional_arguments]

Argument	Description
preview_url	app preview url
--clean	DEFAULT: false if true, existing project directory is removed

Additional Information

1. Destination folder path is logged at the start of the build.
2. Build log files are present at <destination_folder>/output/logs
3. The artifact built is available at <destination_folder>/output/<platform_type>/. The complete path is printed in log also.