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Haul is a command line tool for developing React Native apps

A command line tool for developing React Native apps

Features

Open: Haul is a drop-in replacement for react-native CLI built on open tools like Webpack.

Hackable: Provides a familiar environment by leveraging the Webpack ecosystem.

Just works: Built on top of battle tested open source projects, so you never hit annoying issues like symlink support.

Helpful: Designed from the ground up with helpful error messages to increase your productivity.

Getting started

Start by adding Haul as a dependency to your React Native project (use react-native init MyProject to create one if you don't have a project):

yarn add --dev haul-cli

To configure your project to use haul, run the following:

yarn run haul init

This will automatically add the configuration needed to make Haul work with your app, e.g. add webpack.haul.js to your project, which you can customise to add more functionality.

Next, you're ready to start the development server:

yarn run haul start -- --platform ios

Finally, reload your app to update the bundle or run your app just like you normally would:

react-native run-ios

Documentation

Check out the docs to learn more about available commands and tips on customizing the webpack configuration.

1. CLI Commands
2. Configuration

Limitations

Haul uses a completely different architecture from React Native packager, which means there are some things which don't work quite the same.

We are actively working on adding support for the following:

• Existing react-native commands
• React DevTools
• Developer menu -> Start systrace

The following features are unlikely to be supported in the future:

• Developer menu -> Enable Hot Reloading: use webpack.haul.js config instead
• Haste module system: use something like babel-plugin-module-resolver instead
• Transpile files under node_modules: transpile your modules before publishing, or configure webpack not to ignore them

License

MIT