React-native-firebase: Suggestion: mention non-pod based installation of RNFirebase in docs

[kyle-ssg]

After facing several issues trying to install your module via pods including the following mentioned below as well as module collisions caused by having the React pod, I simply ended up adding your RNFirebase to libraries and installed Firebase with pods. It might be worth offering this as a suggestion to mitigate any issues, especially seeing as adding RNFirebase itself to pods offers little value.

https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase/issues/324
https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase/issues/277
https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase/issues/252

[Jonovono]

Can you go into a bit more detail about what you did @kyle-ssg

[kyle-ssg]

Hey @Jonovono sure thing - glad to help out.

1: Install whatever firebase modules you need via pods, for example my Podfile looks like this :

As you can see this also allows for you to keep the use_frameworks! flag if some of your other dependencies require (a few people have mentioned this from glancing through issues).

1. Drag the RNFirebase.xcodeproj from node_modules/react-native-firebase/ and ensure it's added to the lnk binary with libraries flag.

[Jonovono]

@kyle-ssg awesome seems to work! Thanks! Wonder why this isn't suggested hah.

[kyle-ssg]

Yeah I'd definitely rather do this. I mainly tried this as I also always try to avoid adding React to podfile, it's caused loads of issues in the past for the projects I've done - some of which only occur when archiving.

Anyway, good to hear this worked for you 👍

[chrisbianca]

@kyle-ssg Thanks for this - we made some changes yesterday that have smoothed over the manual linking of the library. We just haven't had a chance to bring the documents back in line yet and offer it as an option. Good news is, that we should also be able to support react-native link which has also previously caused us some issues

[tirrorex]

For people that have troubles to build this on swift, the solution of @kyle-ssg works, just add firebase through your podfile and add ${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR} recursive to RNFirebase target framework search paths.
It's a workaround but it works so...