Realm-js: Support for ReactNative for Windows

Created on 13 May 2016 · 26Comments · Source: realm/realm-js

After speaking with Tim Oliver, it was suggested I post here a request for support of React Native on Windows Mobile.

While Windows support for ReactNative is still in development, it is coming soon, and was worthy an announcement at the Facebook F8 conference.

It would be nice to see Realm as a part of this expansion.

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jamespearson

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react-native-windows definitely needs Realm support

SerhiiRubelLightIT on 18 Jan 2021

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This is definitely on our radar

alazier on 13 May 2016

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+1
Might be nice to have it, since you need some persistent data storage.

adisoftbn on 15 Nov 2016

+1
Any news about this topic? React Native Windows is definitely missing Realm.

juhasuni on 1 Feb 2017

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Steviey on 6 Feb 2017

asteinbps on 29 Mar 2017

luxn on 12 Apr 2017

metalmalte on 15 Apr 2017

kenji4569 on 26 Apr 2017

csotiriou on 19 Jul 2017

leequarella on 23 Jul 2017

+1, and I'd love to help out with this. I actually just tweeted about this as well - would love to chat further.

rozele on 16 Aug 2017

@rozele Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] for a chat.

bmunkholm on 17 Aug 2017

amorenew on 29 Aug 2017

Would the existing realm-dotnet repository be of any use for supporting react-native for windows? I imagine much of the C# code will be similar

Traviskn on 30 Aug 2017

Any news on this topic?

juhasuni on 5 Oct 2017

@Traviskn i don't think so. i'm just struggling to install realm for react native windows. I managed to use realm in a C# UWP app, using the realm nuget package. I was also able to put that package in the react-native-windows generated .sln and use it from within the launching project from c#. But it's not working from javascript side.
Whenever android react native links realm, it adds a line into MainApplication.java:
@Override protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() { return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList( new MainReactPackage(), new RealmReactPackage() ); }
besides of course adding the realm dependency to gradle.
I was thinking something similar has to be done for the react-native-windows project as well:

    class MainReactNativeHost : ReactNativeHost
    {
        public override string MainComponentName => "testPrj";

#if !BUNDLE || DEBUG
        public override bool UseDeveloperSupport => true;
#else
        public override bool UseDeveloperSupport => false;
#endif

        protected override string JavaScriptMainModuleName => "index";

#if BUNDLE
        protected override string JavaScriptBundleFile => "ms-appx:///ReactAssets/index.windows.bundle";
#endif

        protected override List<IReactPackage> Packages => new List<IReactPackage>
        {
            new MainReactPackage(),
        };
    }

As you can see it has the same structure as the android app, and some line would be needed below new MainReactPackage(), for new RealmReactPackage().
Unfortunately the Realm .NET nuget package does not contain such an object.

jakabjack on 6 Mar 2018

Any update on this ?

Udbhav12 on 3 Jul 2018

Any update on when realm will have support for react-native-windows?

hakimny on 17 Sep 2018

@bmunkholm Did your chat with @rozele have any outcomes?

creambyemute on 6 Dec 2018

@creambyemute Nope - I never heard anything.

bmunkholm on 6 Dec 2018

@alazier, any chance of moving this forward? MS has put recently great effort on renewing the React Native for Windows and it would be great to be able to use Realm as the database for the Windows apps built on React Native. @rozele do you know if there are any plans on your side?

juhasuni on 1 Apr 2020

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anyone managed to make Realm work with react-native-windows ?