Support react-native

I am going through the tutorial and I hit an error when I try to connect to the local websocket server from my React Native app. The error is:

Error: Buffer is not defined
 stack: 
  Function.<anonymous>                                         index.ios.bundle:64324
  Function.module.exports.varar [as expr]                      index.ios.bundle:58951
  Table.<anonymous>                                            index.ios.bundle:61785
  Table.RDBOp [as constructor]                                 index.ios.bundle:61791
  new                                                          index.ios.bundle:62148
  Function.<anonymous>                                         index.ios.bundle:64402
  Function.module.exports.aropt [as table]                     index.ios.bundle:58972
  React.createClass.componentDidMount                          index.ios.bundle:1493
  CallbackQueue.assign.notifyAll                               index.ios.bundle:6674
  ReactNativeReconcileTransaction.ON_DOM_READY_QUEUEING.close  index.ios.bundle:16780
  ReactNativeReconcileTransaction.Mixin.closeAll               index.ios.bundle:7214
  ReactNativeReconcileTransaction.Mixin.perform                index.ios.bundle:7155
  batchedMountComponentIntoNode                                index.ios.bundle:7516
  Object.ReactDefaultBatchingStrategy.batchedUpdates           index.ios.bundle:16560
  Object.batchedUpdates                                        index.ios.bundle:6444
  Object.ReactNativeMount.renderComponent                      index.ios.bundle:7600
 URL: undefined
 line: undefined
 message: Buffer is not defined

Some relevant code:

var ReactRethinkdb = require('react-rethinkdb');
var r = ReactRethinkdb.r;

//...

ReactRethinkdb.DefaultSession.connect({
  host: 'localhost',
  port: 8015,
  path: '/db',
  secure: false,
  db: 'test',
});

//...

    console.log(r.table('turtles'));

[lifuzu]

+1 Just got in. I believe it is really an excited feature for react native and rethinkdb!

[mikemintz]

I actually just tried to do this yesterday. I should have posted something about it. Try running this:

$ npm install buffer --save

And then add this to the top of the first javascript file you run (like index.ios.js):

global.Buffer = global.Buffer || require('buffer').Buffer;

Also, I think you’ll need to require('react-rethinkdb/dist/node') instead of require('react-rethinkdb') since it’s not running in a browser environment.

However, after I did all that, I ran into errors about some unknown http module, and didn’t have enough time to resolve that yet. Let me know if you run into the same thing, or something else first, or find a way around it.