In order to hook RN with figwheel re-natal introduces a local figwheel-bridge.js file.

Make sure that this file is not required locally. It should still be possible to make local adaptation, if relevant.

It might be worth looking into how clojurescript handles different targets (nodejs, webworker).

To work with react-native 0.56, the require for figwheel bridge needs to be ./figwheel-bridge instead of figwheel-bridge which requires a change here https://github.com/status-im/clj-rn/blob/master/src/clj_rn/core.clj#L135

see drapanjanas/re-natal#189

In status-react we use also react-native-desktop to have a desktop implementation of the app.
So, desktop platform need to be added to clj-rn and index.desktop.js should be generated.

Both figwheel and the running app generates logs. Makes it easy to browse those logs in realtime.

Some links:

• https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/local-cli/logAndroid
• https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/local-cli/logIOS

At the moment i have to run tail -F figwheel_server.log to check if figwheel finished with compilation for particular platform or not.

As soon as we would have web dashboard #4
it would be nice to have browser notifications showing figwheel compilation status like "Successfully compiled build ios", "Failed to compile build android", etc.

Current environment abstraction is quite rigid and introduces some duplication.

Introduce a new abstraction that can be programmatically manipulated and hides most a the file to developers.

Thank you for the great work and efforts that makes the complex re-natal into a simple handy tool.

Now there's a separate project for React Native packager.
https://github.com/facebook/metro

It will be more convenient if clj-rn can start packager server and simplify basic dev workflow.

The desired workflow may like:

$ npx react-native install    # only once if there's no native code change
$ clj -R repl -m clj-rn.main watch

It has to be clarify how deployment of the app itself is done as it is sometimes necessary to update it (and it's at least needed once).

Specifically both react-native start and react-native run-* should be replaced and made irrelevant.

Some links:

• https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/local-cli/runAndroid
• https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/local-cli/runIOS
• https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/local-cli/cliEntry.js

In .re-natal it is possible to list platform-dependent modules to be included in index.platform.js with following syntax:

"platforms": {
    "ios": {
      "host": "localhost",
      "modules": [
        "react-native-image-resizer",
        "react-native-camera",
        "instabug-reactnative",
        "nfc-react-native",
        "react-native-background-timer",
        "react-native-testfairy"
      ]
    },

We use this feature to provide different list of modules for mobile and desktop platforms in status-react.

@jeluard, is the same functionality exists in clj-rn-conf.edn or need to be implemented?
Thanks!

I just released https://github.com/bhauman/react-native-figwheel-bridge on npm

It is the result of re-thinking the interface and ensuring that it works on figwheel and figwheel-main.

In status-react we are using similar build configs in clj-rn.conf.edn and build.clj. The first one seem to be used for the watch task and the second one for compile and test. We should unify both into clj-rn.conf.edn as it seems to be the one used by clj-rn