React-native-fbsdk: Any plan on upgrading to FB SDK v9 for iOS?

[thongncvn]

Today I've received an email from Facebook about upgrading FB SDK to version 9. The email mentions this URL: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/limited-login

Will you plan to upgrade it? Is there any consequence to the apps that are using the library?

[Allonsy-Jays]

+1

[mtr1012]

+1

[ntluc1998]

+1

[PritishSawant]

I dont think so they will. Looks like the community have to build a new package by wrapping native modules

[johandeklerk]

From FB: "This SDK will now be publicly maintained by the developer community and Facebook will no longer release updated versions of the SDK. We are planning to move the current repo to our Facebook Archive on Github to allow the community to utilize the repo as a basis for future forks."

So I assume that goes for this package too.

Also from FB: "We will continue to allow API calls from your SDK for a transition period of two years. Starting January 19, 2023 we will fail all calls from deprecated SDKs. We encourage you to upgrade to v9.0 as soon as possible to avoid disruption to your application and to access all the benefits of our newest SDK."

So nothing to really worry about until the community picks it up.

[conradchenghk01]

I think fb will urge the upgrade, since the era of iOS 14 app transparency framework may cause some issue from their advertiser side :-)

[eraldoforgoli]

+1

[thongncvn]

@johandeklerk could you please post the URLs to that content?

[johandeklerk]

@thongncvn https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/01/19/introducing-facebook-platform-sdk-version-9/

[norflin321]

+1

[mikehardy]

So there must be a fork (to be 100% clear: that is not any sort of political statement, facebook is telling us the community we must fork ;-) )

I guess the first job is to figure out who works on the project already, and/or if they are interested in continuing, in the general spirit of "those that do the work get to make decisions"

For more than a year, it has basically been the @janicduplessis show. So as far as I'm concerned that's the person I want to hear from with regard to future planning. Janic, do you have any thoughts? I can offer some help with maintenance but mostly (as with my prior PR here) with version tracking / dependency updates. I'm about at my limit with issue triage in other repos and can't imagine exposing myself to the issue triage flow here, honestly :sweat_smile:

[rborn]

@janicduplessis @mikehardy I would just fork it, like we did with the rest of modules from community and then see how people are gonna participate.
And I can jump in helping with issue triage :)

[mikehardy]

Agreed the fork has to happen just that @janicduplessis may already have ideas (or may have preferences) with regard to github namespace / org and/or npmjs namespace etc. And by rights since he's been carrying the repo his preferences should get most weight in my humble opinion, so, I am still curious for thoughts

There may be considerations with regards to using the facebook mark, I don't know? Like, is an "react-native-fbsdk" org okay? with a "react-native-fbsdk" project etc, and are they okay handing off the npmjs "react-native-fbsdk" namespace for publishing continuity?

That's how I would do it if that was possible but I may be missing something that makes that less than ideal for some reason

[thuynt99]

+1
below that link FBSDK 9+
Version 8+ be deprecated on January 19, 2021. Have any plan to upgrade

[garfiaslopez]

+1

[neoassyrian]

+1
so whats next for this? whats the next fork?

[mikehardy]

Is anyone actually paying attention? +1s do not help people. I think it's the right thing to do to see what @janicduplessis thinks. Has anyone else looked at the commit history? Do you realize it's been Janic and only Janic basically, for a really long time? I think if people are interested they should either 1) quietly fork and get to work. No on is stopping you! 2) listen here to see what Janic thinks first. It is NOT a burning fire of a problem.

Starting January 19, 2023 we will fail all calls from deprecated SDKs

There are 2 years to get this sorted out. +1s are useless and just spam notifications. Please don't.

[rborn]

@mikehardy can I plus one yours though ? 😅