# Contributing to React Native WebView First off, _thank you_ for considering contributing to the React Native Community. The community-supported packages are only possible because of amazing people like you. Secondly, we'd like the contribution experience to be as good as possible. While we are a small all-volunteer team, we are happy to hear feedback about your experience, and if we can make the docs or experience better please let us know. ## How to test changes After you fork the repo, clone it to your machine, and make your changes, you'll want to test them in an app. In a new `react-native init` project, do this: ``` $ yarn add ../react-native-webview $ react-native link react-native-webview ``` You may run into a problem where the `jest-haste-map` module map says react-native was added twice: ``` Loading dependency graph...(node:32651) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: jest-haste-map: Haste module naming collision: Duplicate module name: react-native Paths: /Users/myuser/TestApp/node_modules/react-native/package.json collides with /Users/myuser/TestApp/node_modules/react-native-webview/node_modules/react-native/package.json ``` Just remove the second path like this: ``` $ rm -rf ./node_modules/react-native-webview/node_modules/react-native ``` And then re-run the packager: ``` $ react-native start --reset-cache ``` When you make a change, you'll probably need to unlink, remove, re-add, and re-link `react-native-webview`: ``` $ react-native unlink react-native-webview && yarn remove react-native-webview $ yarn add ../react-native-webview && react-native link react-native-webview ``` ## Notes - We use Flow types. TypeScript types will probably be added at a later date. - We don't intend to support UIWebView and will remove it soon. - After pulling this repo and installing all dependencies, you can run flow on iOS and Android-specific files using the commands: - `yarn test:ios:flow` for iOS - `yarn test:android:flow` for Android - If you want to add another React Native platform to this repository, you will need to create another `.flowconfig` for it. If your platform is `example`, copy the main flowconfig and rename it to `.flowconfig.example`. Then edit the config to ignore other platforms, and add `.*/*[.]example.js` to the ignore lists of the other platforms. Then add an entry to `package.json` like this: - `"test:example:flow": "flow check --flowconfig-name .flowconfig.example"` - Currently you need to install React Native 0.57 to be able to test these types - `flow check` will not pass against 0.56.