React Native Restart

Sometimes you want to reload your app bundle during app runtime. This package will allow you to do it.

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Installation

• Using react-native < 0.62? install react-native-restart@0.0.17
• Using react-native >= 0.62? install react-native-restart@0.0.20 and above

With yarn

$ yarn add react-native-restart

With npm

$ npm install --save react-native-restart

Auto-Linking Setup (react-native >= 0.60)

iOS

$ cd ios
$ pod install

Android

No further steps should be taken

Automatic Installation (Without Auto-Linking)

react-native link react-native-restart or npm install -g rnpm && rnpm link react-native-restart

Manual Android Installation

In android/settings.gradle

...

include ':react-native-restart'
project(':react-native-restart').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-restart/android')

In android/app/build.gradle

...

dependencies {
    ...

    implementation project(':react-native-restart')
}

Register module (in MainApplication.java)

import com.reactnativerestart.RestartPackage;  // <--- Import

public class MainApplication extends Application implements ReactApplication {

	private final ReactNativeHost mReactNativeHost = new ReactNativeHost(this) {
  		......

	      /**
	     * A list of packages used by the app. If the app uses additional views
	     * or modules besides the default ones, add more packages here.
	     */
	    @Override
	    protected List getPackages() {
	        ...
	        return Arrays.asList(
	                new MainReactPackage(),
	                new RestartPackage() // Add this line
	        );
	    }
	};
	......
};

Manual iOS Installation

Importing The Library

• Drag the file Restart.xcodeproj from /node_modules/react-native-restart/ios into the Libraries group in the Project navigator. Ensure that Copy items if needed is UNCHECKED!

• Ensure that libRestart.a is linked through Link Binary With Libraries on Build Phases:

• Ensure that Header Search Paths on Build Settings has the path $(SRCROOT)/../node_modules/react-native-restart set to recursive:

• You're All Set!

CocoaPod iOS Installation

In your ios/Podfile make sure to use react-native-restart from the local node_modules/. With that, only your project Pod needs to be linked and no extra configuration is required:

target 'MyReactApp' do
  # Make sure you're also using React-Native from ../node_modules
  pod 'React', :path => '../node_modules/react-native', :subspecs => [
    'Core',
    'RCTActionSheet',
	# ... whatever else you use
  ]
  # React-Native dependencies such as yoga:
  pod 'yoga', path: '../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga'

  # The following line uses react-native-restart, linking with
  # the library and setting the Header Search Paths for you
  pod 'react-native-restart', :path => '../node_modules/react-native-restart'
end

Remember to run cd ios && pod install to update files used by Xcode.

Usage

import RNRestart from 'react-native-restart'; // Import package from node modules

// Immediately reload the React Native Bundle
RNRestart.Restart();

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md if you like to contribute to this library.

Credits

Thanks to Microsoft CodePush library. I simply extracted the code from their library's logic to reload the React Native Bundle.