React Native finally supports Websockets. Which is awesome, however there is one gotcha with socket.io.
npm install socket.io-client
. This will just pull down the socket.io javascript client
Everything works great but there is one issue that window.navigator.userAgent
doesn't exist. Socket.IO checks to deal with some browser incosistencies but we don't care. So all we have to do is create it. However make sure you require react-native
first!
Just like so
window.navigator.userAgent = "react-native";
var io = require("socket.io-client/socket.io");
Now you can do as you please with your new glorious websockets.
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