react-native-legal

Automagically generate license acknowledgements for your React Native app 🚀

Android	iOS	AndroidTV	tvOS

Installation

yarn add react-native-legal

or

npm i --save react-native-legal

Usage

This tool is split into 2 parts:

• a library that lets you display native screen with a list of all dependencies and their licenses
• a config plugin (for Expo projects) and a custom community cli plugin (for bare RN projects)

I want to generate licenses in my Expo project

1. Add the config plugin to the app.json/app.config.js

{
  "expo": {
    "plugins": [
+      "react-native-legal"
    ]
  }
}

2. Use the library in the codebase

import * as React from 'react';
import { Button, View } from 'react-native';
import { ReactNativeLegal } from 'react-native-legal';

function launchNotice() {
  ReactNativeLegal.launchLicenseListScreen('OSS Notice');
}

function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <View>
      <Button onPress={launchNotice} text="Open source licenses" />
    </View>
  );
}

3. Use Prebuild or EAS to build the app

I want to generate licenses in my bare RN project

1. Invoke the CLI plugin from the root of your RN app

npx react-native legal-generate

or

yarn react-native legal-generate

2. Use the library in the codebase

import * as React from 'react';
import { Button, View } from 'react-native';
import { ReactNativeLegal } from 'react-native-legal';

function launchNotice() {
  ReactNativeLegal.launchLicenseListScreen('OSS Notice');
}

function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <View>
      <Button onPress={launchNotice} text="Open source licenses" />
    </View>
  );
}

Expo

• ✅ You can use this library with Development Builds by adding react-native-legal to your app.json/app.config.js plugins array.
• ❌ This library can't be used in the "Expo Go" app because it requires custom native code.

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

Acknowledgements

• AboutLibraries - collects and displays the license metadata for the Android app <3
• LicensePlist - generates license metadata for the iOS app <3

License

MIT