react-native-mmkv

What is react-native-mmkv?

react-native-mmkv is a fast, small, and easy-to-use key-value storage library for React Native. It leverages Facebook's MMKV storage library to provide efficient and secure storage solutions for mobile applications.

What are react-native-mmkv's main functionalities?

Basic Key-Value Storage

This feature allows you to store and retrieve basic key-value pairs. The code sample demonstrates how to set and get a string value using MMKV.

import MMKVStorage from 'react-native-mmkv-storage';

const MMKV = new MMKVStorage.Loader().initialize();

// Set a value
MMKV.setString('username', 'john_doe');

// Get a value
const username = MMKV.getString('username');
console.log(username); // Output: john_doe

Object Storage

This feature allows you to store and retrieve objects. The code sample demonstrates how to set and get an object using MMKV.

import MMKVStorage from 'react-native-mmkv-storage';

const MMKV = new MMKVStorage.Loader().initialize();

const user = { name: 'John Doe', age: 30 };

// Set an object
MMKV.setMap('user', user);

// Get an object
const storedUser = MMKV.getMap('user');
console.log(storedUser); // Output: { name: 'John Doe', age: 30 }

Encryption

This feature allows you to store data securely using encryption. The code sample demonstrates how to set and get an encrypted string value using MMKV.

import MMKVStorage from 'react-native-mmkv-storage';

const MMKV = new MMKVStorage.Loader().withEncryption().initialize();

// Set a value
MMKV.setString('secret', 'my_secret_value');

// Get a value
const secret = MMKV.getString('secret');
console.log(secret); // Output: my_secret_value

Multi-Instance Support

This feature allows you to create multiple instances of storage, which can be useful for separating different types of data. The code sample demonstrates how to set and get values from different instances using MMKV.

import MMKVStorage from 'react-native-mmkv-storage';

const userStorage = new MMKVStorage.Loader().withInstanceID('user').initialize();
const settingsStorage = new MMKVStorage.Loader().withInstanceID('settings').initialize();

// Set values in different instances
userStorage.setString('username', 'john_doe');
settingsStorage.setBool('darkMode', true);

// Get values from different instances
const username = userStorage.getString('username');
const darkMode = settingsStorage.getBool('darkMode');
console.log(username); // Output: john_doe
console.log(darkMode); // Output: true

Other packages similar to react-native-mmkv

react-native-async-storage

react-native-async-storage is a simple, unencrypted, asynchronous, persistent, key-value storage system that is global to the app. It is more widely used and has a larger community but lacks the performance and encryption features of react-native-mmkv.

react-native-sensitive-info

react-native-sensitive-info provides secure storage for sensitive data, such as login credentials. It uses the device's secure storage mechanisms (Keychain on iOS and Keystore on Android). While it offers strong security, it may not be as fast as react-native-mmkv for general key-value storage.

redux-persist

redux-persist is a library used to persist and rehydrate a Redux store. It supports various storage backends, including AsyncStorage. While it is not a direct competitor, it can be used for state persistence in applications using Redux, offering more flexibility in terms of storage backends.

README

MMKV

The fastest key/value storage for React Native.

• MMKV is an efficient, small mobile key-value storage framework developed by WeChat. See Tencent/MMKV for more information
• react-native-mmkv is a library that allows you to easily use MMKV inside your React Native applications. It provides fast and direct bindings to the native C++ library which are accessible through a simple JS API.

Features

• Get and set strings, booleans and numbers
• Fully synchronous calls, no async/await, no Promises, no Bridge.
• Encryption support (secure storage)
• Multiple instances support (separate user-data with global data)
• Customize storage location
• High performance because everything is written in C++ (even the JS functions have C++ bodies!)
• ~30x faster than AsyncStorage
• Uses JSI instead of the "old" Bridge

Sponsors

react-native-mmkv is sponsored by getstream.io.
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Benchmark

AsyncStorage vs MMKV: Reading a value from Storage 1000 times.
Measured in milliseconds on an iPhone 8, lower is better.

Installation

npm install react-native-mmkv

iOS

iOS installation is automatic, just run:

cd ios && pod install

Android

To correctly initialize MMKV on Android, please follow the Installation guide.

Usage

Create a new instance

To create a new instance of the MMKV storage, use the MMKV constructor. It is recommended that you re-use this instance throughout your entire app instead of creating a new instance each time, so export the storage object.

Default

import { MMKV } from 'react-native-mmkv'

const storage = new MMKV()

This creates a new storage instance using the default MMKV storage ID (mmkv.default).

Customize

import { MMKV } from 'react-native-mmkv'

const storage = new MMKV({
  id: `user-${userId}-storage`,
  path: `${USER_DIRECTORY}/storage`,
  encryptionKey: 'some-encryption-key'
})

This creates a new storage instance using a custom MMKV storage ID. By using a custom storage ID, your storage is separated from the default MMKV storage of your app.

The following values can be configured:

• id: The MMKV instance's ID. If you want to use multiple instances, use different IDs. For example, you can separte the global app's storage and a logged-in user's storage. (default: 'mmkv.default')
• path: The MMKV instance's root path. By default, MMKV stores file inside $(Documents)/mmkv/. You can customize MMKV's root directory on MMKV initialization (documentation: iOS / Android)
• encryptionKey: The MMKV instance's encryption/decryption key. By default, MMKV stores all key-values in plain text on file, relying on iOS's/Android's sandbox to make sure the file is encrypted. Should you worry about information leaking, you can choose to encrypt MMKV. (documentation: iOS / Android)

Set

storage.set('user.name', 'Marc')
storage.set('user.age', 21)
storage.set('is-mmkv-fast-asf', true)

Get

const username = storage.getString('user.name') // 'Marc'
const age = storage.getNumber('user.age') // 21
const isMmkvFastAsf = storage.getBoolean('is-mmkv-fast-asf') // true

Keys

// checking if a specific key exists
const hasUsername = storage.contains('user.name')

// getting all keys
const keys = storage.getAllKeys() // ['user.name', 'user.age', 'is-mmkv-fast-asf']

// delete a specific key + value
storage.delete('user.name')

// delete all keys
storage.clearAll()

Objects

const user = {
  username: 'Marc',
  age: 21
}

// Serialize the object into a JSON string
storage.set('user', JSON.stringify(user))

// Deserialize the JSON string into an object
const jsonUser = storage.getString('user') // { 'username': 'Marc', 'age': 21 }
const userObject = JSON.parse(jsonUser)

Documentation

• Hooks
• Value-change Listeners
• Migrate from AsyncStorage
• Using MMKV with redux-persis
• Using MMKV with mobx-persist-storage

Limitations

As the library uses JSI for synchronous native methods access, remote debugging (e.g. with Chrome) is no longer possible. Instead, you should use Flipper.

Adopting at scale

react-native-mmkv is provided as is, I work on it in my free time.

If you're integrating react-native-mmkv in a production app, consider funding this project and contact me to receive premium enterprise support, help with issues, prioritize bugfixes, request features, help at integrating react-native-mmkv, and more.

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT