It's possible to write React Native apps in ES6+ using babel-loader
and webpack
.
Check better approach using DependencyGraph
module: dep-graph.
Basically you need to compile everything to index.ios.js
file, which is then transformed by react-native
. Also, to stop webpack from trying to load native (Objective-C) components, you need to define them all as externals
and set libraryTarget: 'commonjs'
in webpack config, this way webpack will not resolve require
to native components.
Check ignore-modules.js
for the regexp to match all native components, it is extracted using approach described in dep-graph branch.
Check webpack.config.js
for build configuration.
Before running the project, change code location in iOS/AppDelegate.m
to localhost
to run on iOS Simulator or to your computer's IP address to run on device.
Run in the terminal webpack --config webpack.config.js
, open another tab and run react-native start
.
- No support for ES6 classes. There's no
React.Component
or any other extendable base class.