react-native-http-bridge

Simple HTTP server for React Native

Since 0.5.0 supports and handles GET, POST, PUT and DELETE requests. The library can be useful for handling requests with application/json content type (and this is the only content type we support at the current stage) and returning different responses.

Created for Status.im.

Install

npm install --save react-native-http-bridge

Automatically link

With React Native 0.27+

react-native link react-native-http-bridge

Example

First import/require react-native-http-server:

    var httpBridge = require('react-native-http-bridge');

Initalize the server in the componentWillMount lifecycle method. You need to provide a port and a callback.

    componentWillMount() {
      // initalize the server (now accessible via localhost:1234)
      httpBridge.start(5561, function(request) {

          // you can use request.url, request.type and request.postData here
          if (request.type === "GET" && request.url.split("/")[1] === "users") {
            httpBridge.respond(200, "application/json", "{\"message\": \"OK\"}");
          } else {
            httpBridge.respond(400, "application/json", "{\"message\": \"Bad Request\"}");
          }

      });
    }

Finally, ensure that you disable the server when your component is being unmounted.

  componentWillUnmount() {
    httpBridge.stop();
  }