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yarn add --dev @react-native/js-polyfills metro-config @react-native/metro-babel-transformer metro-runtime @react-native/metro-config
Note: We're using yarn to install deps. Feel free to change commands to use npm 3+ and npx if you like
To run the tests in this package, run the following commands from the React Native root folder:
yarn to install the dependencies. You just need to run this onceyarn jest packages/metro-config.Metro is the JavaScript bundler for React Native. It provides the core functionalities for bundling JavaScript code and assets. While @react-native/metro-config is specifically for configuring Metro, the 'metro' package itself includes the bundler and its core functionalities.
Haul is an alternative JavaScript bundler for React Native. It is highly customizable and integrates with Webpack, allowing developers to leverage the extensive Webpack ecosystem. Compared to @react-native/metro-config, Haul offers more flexibility through Webpack's configuration options.
Webpack is a popular JavaScript module bundler. While it is not specifically designed for React Native, it can be configured to work with React Native projects. Webpack offers a wide range of plugins and configuration options, making it a powerful alternative to Metro when used with the appropriate loaders and plugins.
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Metro configuration for React Native.
The npm package @react-native/metro-config receives a total of 557,299 weekly downloads. As such, @react-native/metro-config popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @react-native/metro-config demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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