React-native-ble-plx: npm install takes about 5 minutes to run

[gre]

I have a RN project with bunch of native library but this library exclusively takes about ~3-5 minutes when running npm install the first time.
It looks like the native compilation is the reason of this (RxSwift complication, etc)
Is there a way libraries can be precompiled? like some sort of node-gyp prebuild equivalent? 🤔

Thanks

[Cierpliwy]

There is one thing which can be improved:

• By updating binary releases used by Carthage we end up only compiling BLE framework. All dependencies are cached.

Additionaly we can:

• Try to use static Swift framework to move compiling step to building process. That's how ObjC is working in most libraries.

• Wait for Swift ABI to stabilize and use prebuild frameworks. Unfortunately it will take a while.

[Cierpliwy]

Another possibility is to reimplement API using just one Swift static library without any dependencies such as RxBluetoothKit.

[liuqiang1357]

Same problem to me，npm install is too slow

[pulkonet]

Use yarn add, it is faster than npm install.

[gre]

@pulkonet i think yarn add is as slow as npm install regarding this problem. the same postinstall will run which is taking long time to compile. (I actually was using yarn when i created this issue ;))

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