React Native WebView - a Modern, Cross-Platform WebView for React Native

React Native WebView is a modern, well-supported, and cross-platform WebView for React Native. It is intended to be a replacement for the built-in WebView (which will be removed from core).

MELDD NOTES:

Main branch is where we keep the changes we've done. Deliberately behind the "Upstream" (that can be synced with upstream, hence the name), so that we can maintain a expo-compatible version of the library. Currently, v11.26.1.

Current extra features are:

autoShowKeyboard - (defaults to true) an option to hide keyboard on text selection
hideSelectionContextMenu - (defaults to false) to hide the context menu on text selection

We use yalc to include it in the mono-repo

Core Maintainers - Sponsoring companies

This project is maintained for free by these people using both their free time and their company work time.

Thibault Malbranche (Twitter @titozzz) from Brigad
Jamon Holmgren (Twitter @jamonholmgren) from Infinite Red
Alexander Sklar (Twitter @alexsklar) from React Native Windows @ Microsoft
Chiara Mooney from React Native Windows @ Microsoft

Platforms Supported

Getting Started

Read our Getting Started Guide. If any step seems unclear, please create a detailed issue.

Versioning

This project follows semantic versioning. We do not hesitate to release breaking changes but they will be in a major version.

Breaking History:

Current Version:

11.0.0 - Android setSupportMultipleWindows.
10.0.0 - Android Gradle plugin is only required when opening the project stand-alone
9.0.0 - props updates to injectedJavaScript are no longer immutable.
8.0.0 - onNavigationStateChange now triggers with hash url changes
7.0.1 - Removed UIWebView
6.0.2 - Update to AndroidX. Make sure to enable it in your project's android/gradle.properties. See Getting Started Guide.
5.0.1 - Refactored the old postMessage implementation for communication from webview to native.
4.0.0 - Added cache (enabled by default).
3.0.0 - WKWebview: Add shared process pool so cookies and localStorage are shared across webviews in iOS (enabled by default).
2.0.0 - First release this is a replica of the core webview component

Upcoming:

this.webView.postMessage() removal (never documented and less flexible than injectJavascript) -> how to migrate
Kotlin rewrite
Maybe Swift rewrite

Usage

Import the WebView component from react-native-webview and use it like so:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, Text, View } from 'react-native';
import { WebView } from 'react-native-webview';

// ...
class MyWebComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    return <WebView source={{ uri: 'https://reactnative.dev/' }} />;
  }
}

For more, read the API Reference and Guide. If you're interested in contributing, check out the Contributing Guide.

Common issues

If you're getting Invariant Violation: Native component for "RNCWebView does not exist" it likely means you forgot to run react-native link or there was some error with the linking process
If you encounter a build error during the task :app:mergeDexRelease, you need to enable multidex support in android/app/build.gradle as discussed in this issue

Contributing

See Contributing.md

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

_{Thibault Malbranche} 💻 🤔 👀 📖 🚧 ⚠️ 🚇 💬	_{Jamon Holmgren} 💻 🤔 👀 📖 🚧 ⚠️ 💡 💬	_{Andrei Pfeiffer} 💻 👀 🤔	_{Michael Diarmid} 💻 👀 🤔 🔧	_{Scott Mathson} 💻 📖	_Margaret 💻 📖	_{Jordan Sexton} 💻 📖
_{Malcolm Scruggs} 💻 🔧 ⚠️	_Momazo7u7 📖	_Marco 📖	_{Julien Eluard} 📖	_{Jian Wei} 💻 📖	_{Sergei Butko} 📖	_TMomemt 💻
_{Eric Lewis} 💻 📖	_{Daniel Vicory} 💻 📖