using a browserify working npm package into react-native?

[ramsestom]

Hi

I am trying to use this npm package into react-native:
https://github.com/node-xmpp/node-xmpp/tree/master/packages/node-xmpp-client
but it do not work as is raise some exception (Like: Requiring unknown module "crypto")
This package is supposed to be working in browsers with browserify though. So do you think using react-native-browser-builtins I could make it work into react-native? Does react-native-browser-builtins allow to bring all browserify functionnalities into react-native?
If so, how should I include it into my react-native app?
Thanks for your help

[originalgremlin]

Hi ramsestom. Yes, the hope is that this package will allow you to use anything that can be browserified in react-native. The packages I use for my own work are all okay, but there are literally thousands of npm packages out there that I haven't tried - including node-xmpp-client. Try including "react-native-browser-builtins": "^2.0.1" in your package.json file. That should allow the react-native packager to find all the polyfills required to make your node modules work.

[ramsestom]

Thanks for your prompt reply. I included the dependency line into my package.json file and performed an npm install but I still have this error:
Requiring unknown module "crypto".If you are sure the module is there, try restarting the packager or running "npm install".
Do I need to do something else apart from declaring react-native-browser-builtins as a dependency? (like a requiere somewhere in my main component class or something?)

EDIT: I just saw in one of your commit a reference to stanza.io . Are you successfully using it in react-native? If yes do you have a small example of a react-native app using it (just an app that perform a login to an XMPP server)? Because I am trying to use a js XMPP library inside react-native (already tried strophe.js with no success because it rely on the "document" and "window" DOM elements that are not correctly supported by react-native) and I am now trying node-xmpp but stanza.io could be a good solution too...

[originalgremlin]

Sorry, but I can't get it to work with node-xmpp-client or stanza.io either. At one point we were using stanza.io successfully with react native before we switched to a non-xmpp chat protocol. This library depends fairly heavily on how the react-native packager searches for and interprets "@provides" commands. The packager is poorly documented and has a tendency to change its internals without notice. I can see that the last time I updated it was for react-native 0.17, and the current version is 0.30. I'd almost expect something to go haywire since then. My advice is to try stanza.io.

[MattFoley]

Have there been any updates here? Will this library allow support for stanza.io in the current version of React Native, or any versions more recent than 0.17?

[philikon]

See https://github.com/philikon/ReactNativify for an approach to getting many third party Node modules to work in React Native.