Veramo react native tutorial (Setup & Identifiers) on veramo.io does not work

[andra961]

Hi, i'd like to point out the problems i had by following precisely each step in the following tutorial (i use a pixel 2 android emulator).

1. The SecretBox import is missing (i solved with the auto import from vs code)
2. I get a warning when the app launches: Require cycle: node_modules\react-native-crypto\index.js -> node_modules\react-native-randombytes\index.js -> node_modules\sjcl\sjcl.js -> node_modules\react-native-crypto\index.js (didn't find a way to fix this)
3. When i press the CREATE IDENTIFER button in the app, i get the follwing error: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: TextEncoder
   I fixed the error by adding: import 'text-encoding'; in the index.js file of the app but i was very lucky to figure that out.

My question is: am i making some mistakes in the setup or is the the tutorial just missing the fixes i had to make?i'd also like to know if the warning can somehow be avoided or if it's just inevitable. Thank you in advance.

[mirceanis]

Thank you for reporting this!

You are right, the react native guide is a bit outdated.
The missing secret box import is a slip on our side, and the text encoding is a requirement coming from a recent update in one of our direct dependencies.

You are not doing anything wrong, quite the opposite, in fact :)

We're a very small team with a very large number of libraries under maintenance. This helps a lot!

Would you like to contribute a PR with these fixes to the docs ?

[andra961]

I've submitted the PR, do you have any idea on how to fix the require cycle warning too?

[mirceanis]

Thanks for the submission!
I don't know yet how to fix the cycle warning.
I'm far from a computer for the next few days and can't check. I'll try to see about it early next year

[andra961]

thank you!