React Native support (feature request)

[sigurdsvela]

Has there been any thought to react native support?
I'm fairly new to it, so I don't really know what's required to make it work, or how high effort it is,
but it would be great.

[DiegoRBaquero]

Each platform would have to support WebRTC. You can just throw in webtorrent if it does.

[yciabaud]

You can try using the react native webrtc module and let us know how it does!

[sigurdsvela]

Cool, I'll try that. Will report as soon as I'v had the time to check it out.

[sigurdsvela]

Ok, so I have at least figured one of the problems,
When trying to import webtorrent in react native i get an Unable to resolve module 'WebTorrent' error. I tried removing everything in webtorrent/index.js and only leave module.exports = {}. Which worked. Surprisingly.

So I added in removed and added lines until I was left only with:

/* global FileList */

module.exports = {}

var Buffer = require('safe-buffer').Buffer

which threw Unable to resolve module 'safe-buffer'

Looking in the safe-buffer/index.js file, I saw that it was trying to import 'buffer', which is not a dependency of safe-buffer(or anything else, i guess), and therefor actually was not resolvable. Simply installing 'buffer' fixed the issue. (not the original one, just the Unable to resolve module 'safe-buffer' one)

So it seems that when react is trying to module A that tries to import some module B that does not exists, it throws an error saying that it can not fine module A.
This seems to be a bug in react native's dev tools, so I'm filing an issue there.

My guess is that one or several of the dependencies of webtorrent(or one of it's dependencies and so on) has an unresolvable dependency.

[yciabaud]

Oh you webtorrent is a node project, you have to use browserify or the javascript-only package (webtorrent.min.js) to use it in a non-node environment.

[sigurdsvela]

Ah, sorry. Should have realised. Thanks!

[Uthpala]

@sigurdsvela can you give me a example on how to use webtorrent with react native. What steps you took.