In order for me to port WebViewJavascriptBridge to React Native, I had to extends WebView component provided by Facebook. I wanted a feature like send and onMessage to communicate between React-Native Components and Web View content.

Installation

In order to use this frame work you have to do couple of simple step.

run npm install react-native-webview-bridge
go to Project Navigator tab in xcode
right click on Libraries
select Add Files to ... option
navigate to node_modules/react-native-webview-bridge and add WebViewBridge folder
clean compile to make sure your project can compile and build.

Usage

In order for WebView's javascript communicates to React-Native, you have to add couple of function into your existing web app.

<html>
  <head>
    <title>My Awesome Web App</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <script>
      var myBridge = null;

      //whenever react native component sends a message to WebView,
      //this callback is called.
      function onMessage(message) {
        console.log('This message coming from react-native', message);
      }

      //if the bridge is established, you can use this function to send
      //a message to react native code.
      function send(message) {
        if (myBridge) {
          myBridge.send(message);
        }
      }


      //this function register a callback into inject code in webview
      //and once the bridge is ready, it  will pass the bridge ref to the
      //callback
      function connectWebViewJavascriptBridge(callback) {
        if (window.WebViewJavascriptBridge) {
            callback(WebViewJavascriptBridge)
        } else {
            window.addEventListener('WebViewJavascriptBridgeReady', function() {
                callback(WebViewJavascriptBridge);
            }, false)
        }
      }

      connectWebViewJavascriptBridge(function (bridge) {
        myBridge = bridge;
        bridge.init(onMessage);

        //you can call any other function here to notify that
        //bridge is connected and ready to be used.
      });
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

on React Native side, instead of using WebView component, use the following one.

var React = require('react-native');
var WebViewBridge = require('react-native-webview-bridge');

var {
  Component
} = React;

var WEBVIEW_REF = 'my_webview';

class MyAwesomeView extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    var webviewRef = this.refs[WEBVIEW_REF];

    webviewRef.onMessage(function (message) {
      console.log("This message coming from web view", message);

      setTimeout(function () {
        webviewRef.send("Hello from react-native");
      }, 1000);
    });
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <WebViewBridge
        ref={WEBVIEW_REF}
        url="http://<my awesome project url>"
        style={{flex: 1}}
      />
    );
  }
}

WebViewBridge

WebViewBridge extends 'WebView' so you can have all the available feature of WebView. I have just added 2 methods

send(message )

send any message from react-native to web view

onMessage(callback )

any messages coming from web view will invoke callback with an argument message. Message can be any types.

eval(value )

it will execute javascript string and eval it inside the web view. It is useful if you need to set some global variable before your script is executing. For example set JWT token as a global variable.

Common Problems

If you are rendering WebViewBridge make sure that you also keep registering to the callback.

registerCallback() {
  var webViewBridge = this.refs[WEBVIEW_REF];
  webViewBridge.onMessage(this.onBridgeMessage.bind(this));
}

I used that method inside my component and I keep calling it inside componentDidUpdate.

Thanks

Thanks to @marcuswestin for amazing WebViewJavascriptBridge library.