v4 does not work with react-native

[Yonom]

The README.md advertises React Native Firebase support:

React Firebase Hooks works with both the Firebase JS SDK and React Native Firebase, although some of the typings may be incorrect.

but v4 does not work with react-native-firebase v13.0.1:

[chrisbianca]

@Yonom thanks for flagging. Unfortunately, it seems that with v9 of firebase, the types of the web and react native versions have diverged too far to easily support both. I will remove the note for the time being and consider if there is a better way to support RN in the future

[hannojg]

@chrisbianca I'd like to create a library, especially for react-native. Are you fine with me basically copying the code of version 3 (would use that as the foundation)? I'd highlight that the implementation is based on this library. I am asking because I am not entirely sure how apache 2.0 licensing works.

// Edit: I already started with creating the library. I used the v4 version as starting point and ended up rewriting a lot of the code, so its based on the react native firebase SDK from the beginning (also to avoid type issues). I guess under apache 2.0 doing so shouldn't be a problem, as I will add notices and apache 2.0 license to the library!

[Yonom]

@hannojg looking forward to it!

[hannojg]

@Yonom its already there and done: https://github.com/skillnation/react-native-firebase-hooks
We use that in production already.
The api is the same (except for the imports ofc). Just haven't had the time yet to put up a proper documentation/readme

[penx]

I created a library that can turn any async function in to a hook, including Firebase queries, that mirrors Apollo GraphQL's useQuery and useLazyQuery hook. This is what we're using to turn our react-native Firebase queries in to hooks.

Hopefully it's of use to others!

https://github.com/penx/use-async-query