expo-library

expo-library

CLI for creating reusable, modern Expo libraries using watchwoman and expo init.

Install globally

This package requires node >= 10. before install expo-library install watchwoman like this

npm i -g watchwoman

then install expo-library

npm install -g expo-library

Creating a New Module

expo-library

Answer some basic prompts about your module, and then the CLI will perform the following steps:

• copy over the template
• install dependencies via yarn or npm
• link packages together for local development
• initialize local git repo

Development

Local development is broken into two parts (ideally using two tabs).

First, run yarn start to watch your yourpackage module and automatically add into exmaple/node_modules/yourpackage whenever you make changes.

npm start # runs watcher of watchwoman

The second part will be running the example/ create-expo-app that's linked to the local version of your module.

# (in another tab)
cd example
npm start # runs your expo app bundler

Now, anytime you make a change to your library in src/ or to the example app's example/src, create-expo-app will live-reload your local dev server so you can iterate on your component in real-time.

Publishing to npm

npm publish

This builds commonjs and es versions of your module to dist/ and then publishes your module to npm.

Make sure that any npm modules you want as peer dependencies are properly marked as peerDependencies in package.json. The rollup config will automatically recognize them as peers and not try to bundle them in your module.

Notice

I am looking for volunteers who would like to become active maintainers on the project. If you are interested, please shoot me a note.