If you are looking to contribute to this repository, you will first want to test your changes locally. Here is how you can do it:

1. Fork the repository (ref)
2. Clone your forked repository on your machine

git clone https://github.com/{github-user-id}/stream-chat-react-native.git 

3. Open example app

cd stream-chat-react-native; yarn link; cd examples/TypescriptMessaging; yarn link stream-chat-react-native; yarn; npx pod-install; npx react-native run-ios # npx react-native run-android 

If you are looking to contribute to this repository, you will first want to test your changes locally. Here is how you can do it:

1. Fork the repository (ref)
2. Clone your forked repository on your machine

git clone https://github.com/{github-user-id}/stream-chat-react-native.git 

3. If you don't have react-native app setup yet, please do so using the instructions mentioned here - https://github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-react-native#for-react-native--060-1. Make sure your app runs with stream-chat-react-native dependency (latest version)

4. Next step is to link stream-chat-react-native dependency to locally cloned repo. Replace the stream-chat-react-native dependency with following:

 "stream-chat-react-native": "link:../stream-chat-react-native/native-package", "stream-chat-react-native-core": "link:../stream-chat-react-native", 

Here I am assuming that the clone of stream-chat-react-native and your app are under common directory. e.g.,

-- project-dir -- stream-chat-react-native -- my-chat-app 

5. If you run your app at this point, you will run into some issues related to dependency collision. Since metro bundler will have node_module dependencies from your app folder, stream-chat-react-native folder and stream-chat-react-native/native-package folder. And it doesn't know how to resolve those dependencies.

So you need to modify metro.config.js. You can copy paste the config from this gist - https://gist.github.com/vishalnarkhede/562d3cba77b7340c49a553bbd1a31e11 Please note on line 159, we are creating a list of directories to blacklist. Following path will work if both app and stream-chat-react-native are under common parent directory:

repoDir + '/stream-chat-react-native/examples/NativeMessaging/.*', 

If they are not, please do the necessary changes here.

6. Next clean install your app

rm -rf node_modules rm yarn.lock yarn install watchman watch-del-all yarn start --reset-cache 

And thats all!! If you make code changes in stream-chat-react-native, they should reflect in your app now :)