rn-dev-toolbox

Free your code from ugly logs and code during your debug process and give happiness to your tester team. This package will let you create automated task and display information to help you during development.

For example you could add actions that navigate to specific view with pre-filled data (sign in, sign up, ..) or an action that clear your cache, storage, auth, etc. Use it to have quick and easy way to help you test and debug your app. You can do pretty much anything you want.

Installation

This package does not have a bundle yet, it only provides source code which means that you need to support flow and es6 modules.

npm install rn-dev-toolbox

You can't install this module as a devDependendies as it's present in your code.

Getting started

Basic setup

Most of the time you will want to wrap your entire app inside RNDevToolbox so the toolbox will appears on the top of the screen (check the gif). You may as well use the component anywhere you want and wrap only some portions of your code, it's up to you.

app/Root.js

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import { Text } from 'react-native'
import { RNDevToolbox } from 'rn-dev-toolbox'
 
class Root extends Component<{}, {}> {
  render () {
    return (
      <RNDevToolbox>
        <Text>My Awesome app</Text>
      </RNDevToolbox>
    )
  }
}

The component does not have any required props but you probably want to display some info relative to your app or create some task for your team. Here is an example with some indicators and actions:

app/Root.js

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import { Text, AsyncStorage } from 'react-native'
import { RNDevToolbox } from 'rn-dev-toolbox'
 
class Root extends Component<{
  username: ?string
}, {}> {
  render () {
    return (
      <RNDevToolbox
        indicators={[
          'Hey hi!',
          ['Auth status:', username, username ? 'green' : 'red']
        ]}
        actions={[
          {
            name: 'Clear storage',
            task: () => AsyncStorage.clear()
          }
        ]}
      >
        <Text>My Awesome app</Text>
      </RNDevToolbox>
    )
  }
}

This example print a simple indicator to say 'hi' and your app auth status. You can create dynamic status to track anything you want. We also added an action to clear the storage of your app. This is just an example you can create any task you want.

Props

Property	Type	Required	Default	Description
onRef	(ref: RNDevToolboxInterface) => void	No	-	Retrieve the component instance
indicators	Array<Indicator>	No	[]	Declare a list of indicators
enable	boolean	No	false	Force the devtool (useful if you want to have it on production)
actions	Array<Action>	No	[]	Declare a list of actions
persistenceProvider	PersistenceProvider	No	memory	Use another provider to persist the devtool state. The default memory will not save the visibily when you reload your app for example. You can use AsyncStorage for more conveniance.

Note about production

When using production environment the component will switch to production state as well. There will be nothing displayed and the component will not process anything. Therefore there are no performance impact. You can check the production implementation here RNDevToolboxProd.js. RNDevToolboxProd implement all the method from the RNDevToolboxInterface but will do nothing so your code does not break and you don't have to check for production env by yourself.

API

Accessing your devtool instance

In order to access the api of the toolbox you need to use onRef props. Once you have the instance you have the ability to register indicators and actions dynamically, toggle the visibility, trigger actions, ...

app/Root.js

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import { Text, AsyncStorage } from 'react-native'
import { RNDevToolbox } from 'rn-dev-toolbox'
import type { RNDevToolboxInterface } from 'rn-dev-toolbox'
 
class Root extends Component<{}, {
  rnDevToolbox: RNDevToolboxInterface
}> {
  rnDevToolbox = null
 
  componentDidMount () {
    this.rnDevToolbox.processAction('clearStorage')
  }
 
  render () {
    return (
      <RNDevToolbox
        onRef={ref => {this.rnDevToolbox = ref}}
        actions={[
          {
            label: 'Clear storage',
            name: 'clearStorage',
            task: () => AsyncStorage.clear()
          },
        ]}
      >
        <Text>My Awesome app</Text>
      </RNDevToolbox>
    )
  }
}

Here we retrieve the instance and manually trigger an action. We use a name in camelCase for more conveniance and a label to still have a nice name on screen.

This process to retrieve the instance is only needed for your root component. If you want to access the instance somewhere else you can use the Higher-Order Components with-rn-dev-toolbox.

app/Footer.js

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import { Text } from 'react-native'
import { withRNDevToolbox } from 'rn-dev-toolbox'
import type { RNDevToolboxInterface } from 'rn-dev-toolbox'
 
class Footer extends Component<{
  rnDevToolbox: RNDevToolboxInterface
}, {}> {
  componentDidMount () {
    this.props.rnDevToolbox.processAction('clearStorage')
  }
 
  render() {
    return (
      <Text>I am a footer</Text>
    )
  }
}
 
export withRNDevToolbox(Footer)

You can't use the hoc on your root component as the context is not initialized yet

API Documentation

open() / close() / toggle()

Open, close or toggle the toolbox visibility

debug(info: any)

Print any information to the toolbox

registerAction(action: Action | Array<Action>): void

Register an action or an array of action.

processAction(name: string): void

Execute one of your actions

Contribution

You are welcome to contribute to this package. Feel free to open issue or feature request.

Licence

MIT

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This package is currently used at Versusmind.