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[JS] Expose global as `self` too

See original GitHub issue

In JavascriptCore self is not defined. Libraries like bluebird for example rely on self being the global object instead of window, as it works in web workers too.

This fails in react-native due to self not being defined. A simple global.self = global at the beginning of the script solves this issue. Could we get this into the default packaged code so that we don’t have to put the statement in there by ourselves?

Edit: As discussed in https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/issues/630

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Created 8 years ago
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idecommented, May 30, 2015

yay https://github.com/johanneslumpe/react-native-browser-polyfill

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johanneslumpecommented, May 30, 2015

Published as react-native-browser-polyfill!

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