webshellIntroduction
Compatibility
important
@formidable-webview/webshell requires React Native 0.59+ or expo SDK 33.0+.
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We officially support the most up to date version of react-native-webview. There is a compatibility layer for the deprecated WebView component exported by react-native, but things might break.
Prerequisites
To have a good understanding of this library capabilities, you are highly encouraged, if not already, to familiarize with the following:
- React Higher Order Components (HOC);
- React hooks;
- Document Object Model (DOM).
Motivations
With React Native becoming an incredibly popular framework to build mobile applications, the WebView component has become a central piece for many applications relying on Web contents. This has lead a great deal of packages to be published built on the WebView component; each adding specific behaviors incompatible with one another, and often reinventing the wheel.
Design Goal
The ultimate goal of webshell is to reconcile all those scattered behaviors by providing a universal tool to craft WebView-based components and define features.