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create-react-native-library

create-react-native-library is a CLI for scaffolding React Native libraries for iOS and Android. It simplifies the process of creating, building, testing, and publishing React Native libraries by providing a CLI that leverages react-native-builder-bob.

Key features:​

  1. Simplicity: Provides a CLI which guides you in the creation of different types of React Native libraries.
  2. Toolchain: Supports TypeScript, ESLint, Prettier, Lefthook and Release It out of the box.
  3. Javascript library: Supports for plain Javascript libraries supported by Expo.
  4. Native view and native module: Supports the creation of components with native view, allowing the leverage of native UI counterparts on specific platforms. Supports native module to expose functionality implemented in native code, offering a means to access device-specific features (camera, keystore, accelerometer, ecc.) or implement performance-critical tasks more efficiently through native code integration.
  5. Turbo module and Fabric view: Experimental support for Turbo module and Fabric view which allows for more efficient communication between native and JavaScript code by using JSI instead of a bridge which uses serialization via JSON like native modules.
  6. Multi-language support: Supports the creation of libraries written in Swift, Kotlin, Java, Objective-C and C++.

Use cases​

  • Creation of React Native libraries for iOS and Android which use device-specific features like interacting with the keystore on Android or the keychain on iOS.
  • Creation of React Native libraries for iOS and Android which implement performance-critical tasks more efficiently through native code integration, like cryptography operations.
  • Creation of React Native libraries for iOS and Android which leverage native UI counterparts on specific platforms, like a native map view or a native video player.

Reference of usage in our organization​