From 6fe475daaf69288b5cc10a704aad7075d67ca12a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sasha <oleksandr@status.im>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 00:48:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] make it compatible with expo/next

---
 packages/react/src/WakuProvider.tsx | 3 ++-
 packages/react/src/types.ts         | 2 +-
 packages/react/src/useCreateWaku.ts | 3 ++-
 packages/react/tsconfig.json        | 1 +
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/react/src/WakuProvider.tsx b/packages/react/src/WakuProvider.tsx
index 6fcabbe643..557eb9be0c 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/WakuProvider.tsx
+++ b/packages/react/src/WakuProvider.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+"use client";
 import type { CreateNodeOptions, IWaku, LightNode } from "@waku/interfaces";
-import React from "react";
+import * as React from "react";
 
 import type { CreateNodeResult, ReactChildrenProps } from "./types.js";
 import { useCreateLightNode } from "./useCreateWaku.js";
diff --git a/packages/react/src/types.ts b/packages/react/src/types.ts
index fbf70d9b50..2f9313b847 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/react/src/types.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import type { IWaku } from "@waku/interfaces";
-import type React from "react";
+import type * as React from "react";
 export type { CreateNodeOptions, AutoSharding } from "@waku/interfaces";
 
 type HookState = {
diff --git a/packages/react/src/useCreateWaku.ts b/packages/react/src/useCreateWaku.ts
index 8924d642a6..7e99d1683a 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/useCreateWaku.ts
+++ b/packages/react/src/useCreateWaku.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
+"use client";
 import type { CreateNodeOptions, IWaku, LightNode } from "@waku/interfaces";
 import { createLightNode } from "@waku/sdk";
-import React from "react";
+import * as React from "react";
 
 import type { CreateNodeResult } from "./types.js";
 
diff --git a/packages/react/tsconfig.json b/packages/react/tsconfig.json
index aa507d3e52..cbac7ad67b 100644
--- a/packages/react/tsconfig.json
+++ b/packages/react/tsconfig.json
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     "outDir": "dist/",
     "rootDir": "src",
     "tsBuildInfoFile": "dist/.tsbuildinfo",
+    "declarationDir": "dist",
     "jsx": "react"
   },
   "include": ["src", "*.js"],