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mndewitt
mndewitt

Reputation: 66

Import React Native dependency to existing iOS app manually

It seems like just about every tutorial and blog post out there has you integrating RN into an existing app using CocoaPods. Adding CocoaPods support isn't a possibility for our existing iOS app - we are relying on Carthage for dependency management already which doesn't seem to be supported by RN.

So, I went through the process of adding the dependencies manually by attempting to recreate the iOS app that is produced when using the RN CLI (react-native init):

-Add the React.xcodeproj from node_modules/react-native to my Libraries folder, and also add the other Libraries from node_modules/react-native/Libraries, such as RCTActionSheet.xcodeproj. Then, I added all of those to the 'Link Binary With Libraries' section in Build Phases.

-Updated 'Other Linker Flags' to -ObjC -Ic++.

...My app build is still failing with "RCTRootView.h file not found".

Does anyone have experience with just adding RN manually to an existing iOS project, that might be able to provide a definitive list of steps for adding it manually to an existing project?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 649

Answers (1)

mndewitt
mndewitt

Reputation: 66

In addition to the other steps, I also needed to update the HeaderSearchPaths setting to point to the React folder in node_modules: https://i.sstatic.net/y6alY.jpg

Upvotes: 2

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