expo-web-browser

v12.8.2

Provides access to the system's web browser and supports handling redirects. On iOS, it uses SFSafariViewController or SFAuthenticationSession, depending on the method you call, and on Android it uses ChromeCustomTabs. As of iOS 11, SFSafariViewController For more information about how to use this package see README

Latest version published 3 months ago

License: MIT

NPM

GitHub

Package Health Score

91 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Influential project
maintenance
Healthy
community
Active

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Security

No known security issues

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

All Versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
12.8.2	\|	01/2024	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
12.7.0	\|	10/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
11.0.0	\|	07/2022		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
10.2.1	\|	05/2022		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
10.1.1	\|	02/2022		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

MIT

Security Policy

Yes

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Popularity

Influential project

Weekly Downloads (186,655)

GitHub Stars: 29.01K
Forks: 4.63K
Contributors: 410

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package expo-web-browser receives a total of 186,655 downloads a week. As such, we scored expo-web-browser popularity level to be Influential project.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package expo-web-browser, we found that it has been starred 29,013 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Active

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 410
Funding: No

A good and healthy external contribution signal for expo-web-browser project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 399
Open PR: 260
Last Release: 3 months ago
Last Commit: 2 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of expo-web-browser based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that expo-web-browser demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 12 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: not defined

Age: 5 years
Dependencies: 2 Direct
Versions: 82
Install Size: 188 kB
Dist-tags: 4
# of Files: 40
Maintainers: 27
TS Typings: Yes

expo-web-browser has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

Not sure how to use expo-web-browser?

To help you get started, we've collected the most common ways that expo-web-browser is being used within popular public projects.

expo / expo / packages / expo / build / AuthSession.js View on Github

async function _openWebBrowserAsync(startUrl, returnUrl) {
    // $FlowIssue: Flow thinks the awaited result can be a promise
    let result = await openAuthSessionAsync(startUrl, returnUrl);
    if (result.type === 'cancel' || result.type === 'dismiss') {
        return { type: result.type };
    }
    return result;
}
function getStartUrl(authUrl, returnUrl) {

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Provides access to the system's web browser and supports handling redirects. On iOS, it uses SFSafariViewController or SFAuthenticationSession, depending on the method you call, and on Android it uses ChromeCustomTabs. As of iOS 11, SFSafariViewController no longer shares cookies with Safari, so if you are using WebBrowser for authentication you will want to use WebBrowser.openAuthSessionAsync, and if you just want to open a webpage (such as your app privacy policy), then use WebBrowser.openBrowserAsync.

API documentation

Installation in managed Expo projects

For managed Expo projects, please follow the installation instructions in the API documentation for the latest stable release.

Installation in bare React Native projects

For bare React Native projects, you must ensure that you have installed and configured the expo package before continuing.

Add the package to your npm dependencies

npx expo install expo-web-browser

Configure for iOS

Run npx pod-install after installing the npm package.

Configure for Android

No additional set up necessary.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome! Please refer to guidelines described in the contributing guide.

expo-web-browser dependencies

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expo-web-browser development dependencies

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FAQs

What is expo-web-browser?

Provides access to the system's web browser and supports handling redirects. On iOS, it uses SFSafariViewController or ... Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for expo-web-browser, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is expo-web-browser popular?

The npm package expo-web-browser receives a total of 186,655 weekly downloads. As such, expo-web-browser popularity was classified as an influential project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is expo-web-browser well maintained?

We found that expo-web-browser demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 410 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is expo-web-browser safe to use?

The npm package expo-web-browser was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 25 April-2024, at 13:05 (UTC).

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