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Aaditya Paliwal
Aaditya Paliwal

Reputation: 607

react-native link only for one project (Android or iOS)

I want to link only one of my project (Android or iOS) with the npm package. Is there any way to do it?

Upvotes: 18

Views: 19516

Answers (3)

Ahmad Dehnavi
Ahmad Dehnavi

Reputation: 1543

if react-native < 60

  1. rename platforms ( iOS or Android) that you don't want to link.
  2. run react-native link your-library-js-package-name.
  3. rename platforms to the original name.

.

react-native >= 60

because the new react-native versions have some auto-linking feature you should tell the react-native CLI to do not link your library:

  1. create a react-native.config.js file in the root of your project.

  2. add some config like this

    module.exports = {
  dependencies: {
    'your-library-js-package-name': {
         platforms: {
           android: null, // assign null to disable autolinking
           ios: // assign null to disable autolinking or remove the 
                ios key to let do the default linking
        },
    },

  },
};

check this for more info docs

Upvotes: 14

Ennis Machta
Ennis Machta

Reputation: 316

You can choose to link libraries for only a certain platform by doing:

For Android: react-native link (your_library_name_here) --platforms android

For iOS: react-native link (your_library_name_here) --platforms ios

Upvotes: 30

Deepak
Deepak

Reputation: 734

When you run react-native link, it will link to required platform automatically.

If Module/dependency is required for iOS/Android only then will link to iOS/Android only.

If for both then linking will be for both.

And you can link to a platform manually as well.

Upvotes: 2

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