# React Native WebView - a Modern, Cross-Platform WebView for React Native

**React Native WebView** is a modern, well-supported, and cross-platform WebView for React Native. It is intended to be a replacement for the built-in WebView (which will be [removed from core](https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/pull/3)).

**Please note that this package is pre-release and not yet ready for production use.**

## Platforms Supported

* [x] iOS (both UIWebView and WKWebView)
* [x] Android
* [ ] Windows 10 (coming soon)

## Installation

*Note: this is currently a work-in-progress and not yet published to NPM.*

```
$ npm install --save https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-webview
$ react-native link react-native-webview
```

## Usage

Import the `WebView` component from `react-native-webview` and use it like so:

```jsx
import React, { Component } from 'react'
import { StyleSheet, Text, View } from 'react-native'
import { WebView } from 'react-native-webview'

// ...
class MyWebComponent extends Component {
  render () {
    return (
      <WebView
        src={{uri: "https://infinite.red/react-native"}}
        style={{marginTop: 20}}
      />
    )
  }
}
```

Additional properties are supported and will be added here; for now, refer to the previous React Native WebView documentation for more.

[https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/webview](https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/webview)

## Migrate from React Native core WebView to React Native WebView

Simply install React Native WebView and then use it in place of the core WebView. Their APIs are currently identical, except that this package defaults `useWebKit={true}` unlike the built-in WebView.

### Contributor Notes

* I've removed all PropTypes for now. Instead, we'll be using Flow types. TypeScript types will be added at a later date.
* UIWebView is not tested fully and you will encounter some yellow warning boxes. Since it is deprecated, we don't intend to put a lot of time into supporting it, but feel free to submit PRs if you have a special use case. Note that you will need to specify `useWebKit={false}` to use UIWebView
* After pulling this repo and installing all dependencies, you can run flow on iOS and Android-specific files using the commands:
  * `yarn flow` or `npm run flow` for iOS
  * `yarn flow-android` or `npm run flow-android` 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:
  * `    "flow-example": "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 aganst 0.56.

## Maintainers

* [Jamon Holmgren](https://github.com/jamonholmgren) ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/jamonholmgren)) from [Infinite Red](https://infinite.red/react-native)

## License

MIT