Usage with React Native

We (Animo Solutions) intend to use this library for an Aries framework we’re building (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript). The framework supports React Native as an environment and therefore I’m interested to hear the maintainers point of view of supporting react native in the digital bazaar vc libraries.

I see there are a lot of rn branches across the repos that add initial support for react-native, but it seems they have been stale for a while. I also read a comment in https://github.com/digitalbazaar/jsonld-signatures/pull/142 about being stuck in discussion on support for RN.

There is already a fork available of this library that adds React Native support (https://github.com/Sphereon-Opensource/rn-vc-js), but I’m not sure if using a separate package (while 95% could be shared) is an ideal solution.

What is your stance on supporting React Native for the vc-js libraries, and will PRs to finalize React Native support be welcomed? We’d rather integrate with vc-js directly and not use a fork, but I want to be certain that this is line with the vision of this library.

[dmitrizagidulin]

Hi Timo! Good question – yes, we’re still sorting out Digital Bazaar’s policy on React Native.

Meanwhile, feel free to use the MIT Digital Credentials Consortium’s fork of vc-js library. It’s based on similarly RN-enabled forks of its pre-requisite libraries, and is being actively maintained and synced with Digital Bazaar’s versions.

As the maintainer (and the person performing the syncing 😃 ), I do hope we can eventually sort out the RN issues here on the Digital Bazaar side, and I’ll continue to advocate for it.

[dmitrizagidulin]

My understanding is that this should be fixed now with the move to ESM. I’m closing – feel free to reopen if there are still issues.

Not fixed, sadly. Still various RN-related issues that require us to maintain forks.