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react-native-nitro-jsdom

A headless HTML/DOM environment for React Native

React Native has no native equivalent of jsdom. When you need to parse an HTML document, manipulate its DOM, or run arbitrary JavaScript inside it, without rendering anything on screen, your only option today is a WebView, a visual component that ties your business logic to the UI layer and drags in a full browser engine just to evaluate a script.

react-native-nitro-jsdom solves this by providing a real, isolated HTML + JS sandbox, powered by Nitro Modules, that runs entirely off-screen and off the React tree.

import { JSDOM } from 'react-native-nitro-jsdom'

const dom = JSDOM.create(`
  <html>
    <body>
      <div id="result">0</div>
    </body>
  </html>
`)

await dom.evaluate(`
  document.getElementById('result').textContent = String(2 + 2)
`)

const value = await dom.evaluate(`document.getElementById('result').textContent`)
// → "4"

dom.dispose()

Features

• Headless & off-tree - no React component, no screen, no UI tree. Parse, mutate, and evaluate HTML entirely off-screen.
• Truly isolated runtime - every JSDOM.create() spins up its own QuickJS runtime, not a shared Hermes instance. No leaking globals between sandboxes.
• Native HTML parsing - backed by Lexbor, the fastest WHATWG-compliant HTML parser in C99, with zero dependencies.
• jsdom-shaped DOM API - querySelector, textContent, dataset, and more mirror jsdom's DOM shape, though usage differs: everything runs through the async evaluate(), not jsdom's synchronous object access.
• Synchronous JSI bridge - powered by Nitro Modules, with direct JSI calls, no bridge, no JSON serialization overhead.
• Full memory control - call dispose() to deterministically free the Lexbor document and QuickJS runtime, no waiting on GC.

Installation

Requirements

Component	Requirement
React Native	0.76.0 or higher, with the New Architecture (Fabric + TurboModules) enabled
Node.js	18.0.0 or higher
react-native-nitro-modules	Required peer dependency

yarn add react-native-nitro-jsdom react-native-nitro-modules

For iOS, install pods:

cd ios && pod install && cd ..

For Android, the package auto-links. Run a Gradle sync if needed.

See the Compatibility page for platform details (iOS, Android, visionOS) and Expo notes.

Usage

Full docs, architecture, and API reference: salve-software.github.io/react-native-nitro-jsdom

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup instructions, branch/commit conventions, and the PR process.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License, see LICENSE for details.

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