js-data-http does not work with React Native in a mobile environment

[aveerthakur]

Your framework currently runs in a browser and Node. We are experimenting with mobile apps with something like React Native which is closer to a browser but does not have all the polyfills. I had to comment out a few cookie/document/navigator references in you 'js-data-http' adapter to make it work. Please consider this 3rd environment - the delta in terms of code changes is not big but you can fulfill the needs of a big emerging category of apps.

[zuzusik]

Isn't it possible to include required polyfills into React Native app?

[aveerthakur]

React Native currently has a limited set of polyfills: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/. If you treat 'js-data-http' as a blackbox you will not know what works and what does not in that environment. You will have to depend on hit and trials. Intentionally designing js-data to run on React Native would lead the code to be either not dependent or optionally dependent on things like: cookie/navigator/document etc.

[gutenye]

👍 for this

The problem is js-data-http depends 3rd part library: axios, which does not work in React Native.

React Native support fetch() and XMLHttpRequest(), either one is enough to make the js-data-http adapter works.

[gutenye]

Turns out axios 0.7 is already support React Native, I think just update the axios dependency version will work.

[jmdobry]

Fixed in 3.0.0-alpha.2. js-data-http 3.0.0-alpha.2 now bundles the browser build of axios v0.8.1. There is also a js-data-http-node package in NPM that users the Node.js build of axios v0.8.1. There is also a js-data-fetch package which does not bundle or use axios, and will default to using window.fetch if you don't provide your own http lib.

[aveerthakur]

👍 Thanks for fixing it!

[crobinson42]

There is a working example of js-data-http working in a React Native project here: https://github.com/crobinson42/react-native-js-data-demo