Importing files outside main directory

Where I have a directory for mobile and a directory for web which I’d like to share some common code (utils, etc). Currently, if I import a file outside the root directory of my generated app (outside where App.js is located), I get an error with no file found.

Is this by design? Will this be supported in the future and is this an Expo limitation or RN?

Thanks

[roblafeve]

@pankaj-arunsingh I can’t find the original issue where I finally found this but basically add only the external module path you want to import. In my case my module had a dependency on React and React-Native so those are added as extraNodeModules. Hope this helps.

Inside rn-cli.config.js:

var path = require("path");
const metroBundler = require('metro-bundler');

var config = {
  extraNodeModules: {
    "react-native": path.resolve(__dirname, "node_modules/react-native"),
    "react": path.resolve(__dirname, "node_modules/react"),
  },
  getProjectRoots() {
    return [
      // Keep your project directory.
      path.resolve(__dirname),
      path.resolve(__dirname, "../native"), // path to the external module
    ];
  }
}
module.exports = config;

[pankaj-arunsingh]

This is crazy. Please post a solution to this problem if anyone finds it.