React Native Support

First off: Thank you so much for an awesome project. I’ve used this several times for testing integrations and doing demos, it’s a really great library for working with Salesforce.

I have opened up two PRs that make jsforce function correctly with React Native:

• #571 Fixed JSONP detection by additionally checking for document, this is important because in RN JSONP should not be used, but because the window object exists, but document does not. This additional check should not present any regression to the existing JSONP support.
• #572 Switches to using webpack. This one I am less confident about, but as far as I can tell things seem functional. Why do this? First off it’s important to note that RN does not have node core libraries, so some process must be used to load (or browserify) the various core node libraries jsforce requires. However, RN does have a require() method. Ultimately this comes down to the way that browserify attempts to resolve dependencies using require(), which is different from what webpack does. Webpack does not use require() but webpack_require() which makes all the world of difference. If there was a way to change how browserify does this, I would prefer that, but as I am not aware of one I took a stab at converting to webpack instead.

With the two above changes it is possible to use jsforce in a React Native application by simply doing:

import jsforce from 'jsforce/build/jsforce.js';

I understand the webpack change may be undesirable, but please give it some consideration as I think being able to use jsforce in React Native is a killer feature.

[darasus]

Any updates on this issue?

[stomita]

@stanlemon Interesting. I personally am not using React Native, however, I have a will to support the env as much as possible.

From curiosity I’d like to ask you why you are importing the built file, not the module name like following.

import jsforce from "jsforce";