react-native-webview: support new architecture

[shirakaba]

Summary

react-native-webview does not – as far as I can tell, though I may be wrong – appear to support New Architecture and it's blocking us from migrating our React Native Windows app to New Arch.

Motivation

Our CI builds currently take 40 minutes and we'd love to enable New Architecture and take advantage of prebuilt React Native Windows, but we're blocked on migrating until react-native-webview supports New Architecture.

React Native WebView is arguably the highest-value native module in the React Native ecosystem, as it gives one access to powerful UI (e.g. it's essentially necessary for syntax-highlighting code blocks) and even a great variety of native APIs (e.g. microphone recording and cryptography)

Other info

I tried making contributions to react-native-webview before but unfortunately the monorepo and build artifacts take up too much disk space to fit on my available Windows machine, so I found myself unable to assist.

Related:

• react-native-device-info does not seem to handle new architecture for windows #14341
• react-native-permissions: support new architecture #14339

Basic Example

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Open Questions

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[rlbisbe]

I am also working on a project with a WebView2 component that targets Fabric Highly interested in the path forward on this issue.

[chiaramooney]

Correct; currently we don't have support for react-native-webview on the new architecture. We plan to support this module on Fabric in the future, but don't have a timeline for when that work will be completed yet.