Version: next

Out-of-Tree Platforms

React Native is not only for Android and iOS - there are community-supported projects that bring it to other platforms, such as:

  • React Native Windows - React Native support for Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
  • React Native DOM - An experimental, comprehensive port of React Native to the web. (Not to be confused with React Native Web, which has different goals)
  • React Native Turbolinks - React Native adapter for building hybrid apps with Turbolinks 5.
  • React Native Desktop - A project aiming to bring React Native to the Desktop with Qt's QML. A fork of React Native Ubuntu, which is no longer maintained.
  • React Native macOS - An experimental React Native fork targeting macOS and Cocoa
  • React Native tvOS - adaptation of React Native for Apple tvOS
  • alita - An experimental, comprehensive port of React Native to mini-program(微信小程序).
  • Proton Native - A wrapper for React Native, using Qt to target Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

Creating your own React Native platform

Right now the process of creating a React Native platform from scratch is not very well documented - one of the goals of the upcoming re-architecture (Fabric) is to make maintaining a platform easier.

Bundling

As of React Native 0.57 you can now register your React Native platform with React Native's JavaScript bundler, Metro. This means you can pass --platform example to npx react-native bundle, and it will look for JavaScript files with the .example.js suffix.

To register your platform with RNPM, your module's name must match one of these patterns:

  • react-native-example - It will search all top-level modules that start with react-native-
  • @org/react-native-example - It will search for modules that start with react-native- under any scope
  • @react-native-example/module - It will search in all modules under scopes with names starting with @react-native-

You must also have an entry in your package.json like this:

{
"rnpm": {
"haste": {
"providesModuleNodeModules": ["react-native-example"],
"platforms": ["example"]
}
}
}

"providesModuleNodeModules" is an array of modules that will get added to the Haste module search path, and "platforms" is an array of platform suffixes that will be added as valid platforms.

Last updated on by Jack Williams