New cross-platform WebView package: react-native-webview

[jamonholmgren]

Hey there! Thanks for your hard work on this package.

I've started work extracting the built-in WebView into its own package. This package supports WKWebView (based on Facebook's internal work), Android, and (eventually) Windows 10 via react-native-windows.

After we get the package stable, our goal will be to improve support on all three platforms, including some of the things you've run into with this package.

My question is whether you'd like to collaborate on this new package. I don't intend to put any pressure on you or anything, just offering to combine efforts under the React Native Community repository.

Happy to answer questions and hear comments. Thank you!

[insraq]

Hey. Thanks for contacting me. This project was created long time ago when there was no viable implementation of WKWebView for React Native. And I haven't been using React Native for almost a year - the community has been fantastic in submitting PR and fixing bugs.

This project is licensed under MIT, so feel free to take part of the code or fork the whole project. And I am happy to direct the contributors to the new project.

This project was created to be "compatible" with existing RN's WebView, which results in one of the issues - lots of existing APIs are not well designed and lots of the WkWebView features are not available on other platforms. If the new project is to provide a cross-platform implementation of WebView, this project can potentially move towards being a supercharged "iOS-only" WkWebview implementation. But that is really up to the community.

Either way, I am happy to help with any transitions but I probably won't be contribute a lot myself.

[jamonholmgren]

Thank you @insraq! Appreciate the offer to use your code. We will be referring to it as we move forward.

cc @Titozzz

[Titozzz]

Thanks for the answer ! 🎉❤️