react-native-cbl v1.0.1

react-native-cbl

react-native-cbl is a React Native module providing an easy way to create offline-first, lightweight and performant mobile application on both iOS and Android platforms. This is an all-native wrapper over Couchbase Lite, which is a document-oriented database running right on the mobile devices.

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-cbl --save

or

$ yarn add react-native-cbl

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-cbl

Manual installation

iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-cbl and add RNReactNativeCbl.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNReactNativeCbl.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

• Add import com.reactlibrary.RNReactNativeCblPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNReactNativeCblPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

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

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     compile project(':react-native-cbl')

Usage

import CouchbaseLite, { CBLConnection, CBLConnector } from 'react-native-cbl'

const cblConnection = new CBLConnection({
  dbName: 'mydb',
  syncGatewayUrl: 'http://sg.myapp.com/mydb',
  views: { ... },
})

export default class App extends React.Component {
  onButtonClicked() {
    CouchbaseLite.createDocument({ title: 'New Title', text: 'Description' })
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <CBLConnector connection={cblConnection}>
        ...
      </CBLConnector>
    )
  }
}

Demo App

There is a demo app available at https://github.com/bjornd/ReactNativeNotes