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[React Native] Can't find variable: __dirname

See original GitHub issue

I simply added

import useSWR from 'swr'

then error occurred Can’t find variable: __dirname __dirname is on compiled dist code, but React Native doesn’t support _dirname.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Reactions:2
  • Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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shudingcommented, Nov 27, 2019

The current cache structure needs some refactoring to support async cache mechanisms. And after that, we will be able to support custom cache APIs like AsyncStorage.

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90dycommented, Nov 21, 2019

The __dirname variable is located in node_modules/swr/dist/index.js I need to import swr/esm to bypass it

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