Apply patch for react-native version

[marc-simon]

Hi, Is there any way to apply a patch to the react-native version being bundled in ern?

I want to apply the following patch to react-native
facebook/react-native#30034 (comment)

Can you please suggest on how can i do this?

[friederbluemle]

Hi @marc-simon - Thanks for your question. At the moment it is not possible to modify the version of react-native that is bundled in ern. That's because we use an unmodified packaged artifact (com.walmartlabs.ern:react-native), deployed to maven central.

The solution in the linked issue looks reasonable though, and several other people have shown interests as well. I'd suggest this to be merge to react-native first, which will then also get picked up by ern.

[marc-simon]

Hi @friederbluemle, thanks for the response. Although, it's an important issue to be fixed the fix/patch mentioned seems like a quick fix rather long-term fix as react-native deprecated using scaleY (and it's been more than an year)

Theoretically, if I fork https://github.com/electrode-io/react-native/tree/0.64-ern, patch & publish to my own private maven repo and use that in development ern by making relevant changes in following lines

1. electrode-native/ern-container-gen-android/src/AndroidGenerator.ts

   Line 337 in a091921

   `com.walmartlabs.ern:react-native:${versions.reactNativeAarVersion}`,

2. electrode-native/ern-api-impl-gen/hull/android/lib/build.gradle

   Line 30 in a091921

   implementation 'com.walmartlabs.ern:react-native:{{{reactNativeVersion}}}'

it should work right? Could you please suggest if there's anything else to take care of?

[friederbluemle]

@marc-simon - Yes, that looks like it should work 👍