mole-rpc-transport-react-native v1.0.1

ReactNative/WebView Transport for Mole RPC (JSON RPC Library)

Setup communication between React Native and code inside WebView with just several lines of code.

Mole-RPC is a tiny transport agnostic JSON-RPC 2.0 client and server which can work both in NodeJs, Browser, Electron etc.

This is Event Emitter (window) based transport but there are many more transports.

Mole-RPC has zero dependencies and is a very small library.

Usage example (with simplified API)

react-native-index.js

import MoleClient from 'mole-rpc/MoleClient';
import Transport  from 'mole-rpc-transport-react-native/Transport';

export default class ReactNativeApp extends React.PureComponent {
    constructor(...params) {
        super(...params);

        this.webViewRef = React.createRef();
    }
    componentDidMount() {
        this.initMoleRPC(this.webViewRef.current);
    }
    async initMoleRPC(webViewRef) {
        const client = new MoleClient({
            requestTimeout : 1000,
            transport : new Transport({ windowListener: webViewRef })
        });
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <WebView
                ref = {this.webViewRef}
            />
        );
    }
}

webview-index.js

import MoleServer        from 'mole-rpc/MoleServer';
import Transport         from 'mole-rpc-transport-react-native/Transport.js';
import WindowListener    from 'mole-rpc-transport-react-native/WindowListener.js';

const sum = (a, b) => a + b;
const multiply = (a, b) => a * b;

async function main() {
    const server = new MoleServer({
        transports: [
            new Transport({
                windowListener: new WindowListener()
            })
        ]
    });

    server.expose({ sum, multiply });
    await server.run();
}

main().catch(console.error);

More examples

Standard API for sending work to your web view from React Native.

See examples/send-work-to-webview

Bidirectional connection

Each side works as client and server the same time.

See examples/bidirectional-calls