RFC: out-of-NPM package solution for React Native Artifacts #508
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Summary: I'm not going to merge this as it is, this is mostly for discussions with the community for the sake of RFC facebook#508 react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#508 Here I'm setting up a :ReactAndroid:external-artifacts Gradle module which is responsible of uploading arbitrary artifacts to Maven (Central or any other repo). In this specific example I'm uploading the Hermes iOS tarball which is 500+ Mb. In this module I've configured the auth with Sonatype for publishing and the GPG signing of the artifacts. Changelog: [Internal] [Changed] - Store the iOS Hermes tarball on Maven Differential Revision: D39886167 fbshipit-source-id: 66edae7f83df35525dc8cccd68bb5bb3a5e02a12
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UpdateHey all,
I've updated the RFC with the considerations from those 2 prototype. At this stage we're leaning towards the Maven approach. We're still allowing some days to collect feedbacks before making a final decision which will most likely land on 0.71.0. |
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This can now be merged (cc @kelset and others for approvals) |
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react-native-quick-sqlite is broken due to this. |
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This method makes it impossible to integrate RN in the existing projects of Android, and can only use the old version of React-Native, which is really bad |
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That's not correct. Actually, this method makes 'easier' to integrate with existing Android apps as we're now shipping artifacts to Maven Central, where a lot of other popular Android libraries are living. @mazhuang123 Can you elaborate on what is your problem? |
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This is not the right repo to ask for support to your specific question. |
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Before what we did was essentially guess what files might exist for any given package. This approach mostly works, but not entirely. This is especially problematic when dealing with weird edge case packages like `react-native`, which you can read about here: react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#508 https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/blob/4a06fc64/proposals/0508-out-of-npm-artifacts.md#the-react-native-android-archive In order to avoid as much the guessing aspect of fetching Gradle dependencies we are using both HTML listsings of files and `artifact-metadata.json` files that exist for more recent packages. This way we can avoid having to add special edge cases that have been found out when working on React Native 72 upgrade in: #17062 Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <[email protected]>
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Before what we did was essentially guess what files might exist for any given package. This approach mostly works, but not entirely. This is especially problematic when dealing with weird edge case packages like `react-native`, which you can read about here: react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#508 https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/blob/4a06fc64/proposals/0508-out-of-npm-artifacts.md#the-react-native-android-archive In order to avoid as much the guessing aspect of fetching Gradle dependencies we are using both HTML listsings of files and `artifact-metadata.json` files that exist for more recent packages. This way we can avoid having to add special edge cases that have been found out when working on React Native 72 upgrade in: #17062 Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <[email protected]>
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Before what we did was essentially guess what files might exist for any given package. This approach mostly works, but not entirely. This is especially problematic when dealing with weird edge case packages like `react-native`, which you can read about here: react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#508 https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/blob/4a06fc64/proposals/0508-out-of-npm-artifacts.md#the-react-native-android-archive In order to avoid as much the guessing aspect of fetching Gradle dependencies we are using both HTML listsings of files and `artifact-metadata.json` files that exist for more recent packages. This way we can avoid having to add special edge cases that have been found out when working on React Native 72 upgrade in: #17062 Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <[email protected]>
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Before what we did was essentially guess what files might exist for any given package. This approach mostly works, but not entirely. This is especially problematic when dealing with weird edge case packages like `react-native`, which you can read about here: react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#508 https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/blob/4a06fc64/proposals/0508-out-of-npm-artifacts.md#the-react-native-android-archive In order to avoid as much the guessing aspect of fetching Gradle dependencies we are using both HTML listsings of files and `artifact-metadata.json` files that exist for more recent packages. This way we can avoid having to add special edge cases that have been found out when working on React Native 72 upgrade in: #17062 Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <[email protected]>
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Before what we did was essentially guess what files might exist for any given package. This approach mostly works, but not entirely. This is especially problematic when dealing with weird edge case packages like `react-native`, which you can read about here: react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#508 https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/blob/4a06fc64/proposals/0508-out-of-npm-artifacts.md#the-react-native-android-archive In order to avoid as much the guessing aspect of fetching Gradle dependencies we are using both HTML listsings of files and `artifact-metadata.json` files that exist for more recent packages. This way we can avoid having to add special edge cases that have been found out when working on React Native 72 upgrade in: #17062 Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <[email protected]>
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Before what we did was essentially guess what files might exist for any given package. This approach mostly works, but not entirely. This is especially problematic when dealing with weird edge case packages like `react-native`, which you can read about here: react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#508 https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/blob/4a06fc64/proposals/0508-out-of-npm-artifacts.md#the-react-native-android-archive In order to avoid as much the guessing aspect of fetching Gradle dependencies we are using both HTML listsings of files and `artifact-metadata.json` files that exist for more recent packages. This way we can avoid having to add special edge cases that have been found out when working on React Native 72 upgrade in: #17062 Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <[email protected]>
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Before what we did was essentially guess what files might exist for any given package. This approach mostly works, but not entirely. This is especially problematic when dealing with weird edge case packages like `react-native`, which you can read about here: react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#508 https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/blob/4a06fc64/proposals/0508-out-of-npm-artifacts.md#the-react-native-android-archive In order to avoid as much the guessing aspect of fetching Gradle dependencies we are using both HTML listsings of files and `artifact-metadata.json` files that exist for more recent packages. This way we can avoid having to add special edge cases that have been found out when working on React Native 72 upgrade in: #17062 Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <[email protected]>
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Before what we did was essentially guess what files might exist for any given package. This approach mostly works, but not entirely. This is especially problematic when dealing with weird edge case packages like `react-native`, which you can read about here: react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#508 https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/blob/4a06fc64/proposals/0508-out-of-npm-artifacts.md#the-react-native-android-archive In order to avoid as much the guessing aspect of fetching Gradle dependencies we are using both HTML listsings of files and `artifact-metadata.json` files that exist for more recent packages. This way we can avoid having to add special edge cases that have been found out when working on React Native 72 upgrade in: #17062 Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <[email protected]>
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Before what we did was essentially guess what files might exist for any given package. This approach mostly works, but not entirely. This is especially problematic when dealing with weird edge case packages like `react-native`, which you can read about here: react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#508 https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/blob/4a06fc64/proposals/0508-out-of-npm-artifacts.md#the-react-native-android-archive In order to avoid as much the guessing aspect of fetching Gradle dependencies we are using both HTML listsings of files and `artifact-metadata.json` files that exist for more recent packages. This way we can avoid having to add special edge cases that have been found out when working on React Native 72 upgrade in: #17062 Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <[email protected]>
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Before what we did was essentially guess what files might exist for any given package. This approach mostly works, but not entirely. This is especially problematic when dealing with weird edge case packages like `react-native`, which you can read about here: react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#508 https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/blob/4a06fc64/proposals/0508-out-of-npm-artifacts.md#the-react-native-android-archive In order to avoid as much the guessing aspect of fetching Gradle dependencies we are using both HTML listsings of files and `artifact-metadata.json` files that exist for more recent packages. This way we can avoid having to add special edge cases that have been found out when working on React Native 72 upgrade in: #17062 Signed-off-by: Jakub Sokołowski <[email protected]>
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Is there a way to see the discussion links referenced above like: https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/blob/nc/out-of-npm-rfc/proposals/0000-out-of-npm-artifacts.md#prototype. I’m trying to make some boilerplate for a JSI plugin and having some issues with the Android procedure. |
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@therealpurplemana I think this is the link you are talking about? facebook/react-native#34812 you can check them out via: https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/pull/508/files |
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Thank you |
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Root cause: The build was failing because it was looking for React Native artifacts in node_modules/react-native/android, but React Native 0.71+ no longer ships Android artifacts in the npm package. They are now distributed via Maven Central. Error: "Could not find any matches for com.facebook.react:react-native:+" Solution: Removed the maven repository pointing to node_modules/react-native/android React Native artifacts are automatically resolved from mavenCentral() which is already configured. Reference: react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#508 Changes: - Removed maven { url } block for react-native/android - Removed maven { url } block for jsc-android/dist (also on Maven Central) - Kept google(), mavenCentral(), Guardian Project, and jitpack repos This is the correct configuration for React Native 0.71+ 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>
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Hey all,
I'm sharing this RFC I wrote with the support of @renchap & @kelset to solve the problem of our NPM package size. We would love to hear the community's opinion on this change before we take any step in any direction.
We don't believe this change will affect users of React Native but will most likely affect advanced users such as library developers, SDK authors, developers of out-of-tree platforms that rely on our artifacts.
For a better reading experience you can find the file view here.