react-native-fix-pod-links

Focused plugin to help with developing React Native static modules that have CocoaPod dependencies (using react-native-pods maybe?)

This will edit the header search path to add an absolute reference from your linked module to your app's ios/Pods path.

As a result, you get to use linked libraries stored anywhere in the tree you want, and they will have the correct path "back" to the app's additional dependencies.

Installation

Global (kinda convenient for dev)

yarn global add react-native-fix-pod-links

Per-app (useful for sharing)

yarn add react-native-fix-pod-links

Usage

Assuming you have a library and app stored at, say:

/Users/me/Documents/module
/Users/me/Documents/testapp

And you want to be able to develop module in-place while running through testapp.

Presumably you have already done:

cd /Users/me/Documents/testapp
yarn add link:/Users/me/Documents/module

(There are multiple ways to get the above effect, but this will do for now)

Now try building your app. If it is failing because of a dependency on CocoaPod, you just:

cd /Users/me/Documents/testapp
react-native-fix-pod-links

Switch back over to xcode. It builds!

Shorter format

Want to save some keystrokes? Try just typing:

rnfpl

Undo

Important you problably don't want to keep these absolute links for all time - not helpful for distribution, for example. Easily remove them.

cd /Users/me/Documents/testapp
rnfpl -u