[experimental] Audit what we're about to release as web3.js Release Candidate for React Native

steveluscher commented 7 months ago

We have no React Native test harness, so we don't know if the new library actually works on React Native. Maybe it does, or maybe it's still missing some polyfills.

Audit the library's compatibility with React Native (specifically RN >=0.7.0 with the Hermes engine)
Wherever there are problems, either
- Write our code differently to be naturally compatible, or
- Create a fork of our code that is compatible (example: @solana/text-encoding-impl), or
- Create a new package (eg. @solana/react-native-polyfill or something) that can be bare-imported to make things work

steveluscher commented 7 months ago

Are you still doing React Native stuff, @beeman?

beeman commented 7 months ago

Are you still doing React Native stuff, @beeman?

At the moment I'm not working on any React Native apps, but I'm happy to dive into it when I have some more free time, like right after HH Dubai.

steveluscher commented 4 months ago

I tried the new web3.js with a plain Expo app yesterday. With only the introduction of a SubtleCrypto polyfill (I used https://github.com/margelo/react-native-quick-crypto) I was able to generate keypairs and make RPC calls.

There's one ergonomic fix that needs to be made (#2898) and I think we can close this.

solana-labs / solana-web3.js

[experimental] Audit what we're about to release as web3.js Release Candidate for React Native #2402