Creating Alias in React Native:
Is there anything more frustrating to find this path../../../../../components/location in Javascript?
What if we can use “/components/location” from any where in the code base?
Enter the Alias
So we are writing alias in .babelrc and we use a babel plugin to get aliasing set up, since we can’t use webpack in react native.
Initially, we want to install babel-plugin-module-resolver with yarn or npm.
$ npm install babel-plugin-module-resolver
Once we’ve installed, open up the project’s and find .babelrc file, If there is no .babelrc file then create the file .babelrc in root. Under the plugins key, add the below snippet:-
{
"presets": ["react-native"],
"plugins": [
[
"module-resolver",
{
"root": [
"./src"
],
"alias": {
"src": "./src",
"assets": "./src/assets"
}
}
]
]
}
Now we can use src/pages/homepage instead of using complex relative paths like ./../../src/pages/homepage
Now, clear the cache and restart the node server by following steps:
$ npm start --reset-cache
$ npm run ios
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