The top-level package.json explicitly includes the directories it needs (vendor/.npmignore cuts down the cruft). The publish-beta.sh script essentially uses `npm pack` to package up the NPM module and then push it into an orphaned `beta` branch.
The idea is that we will have an NPM module that should always be required to use the Realm JS API. It will handle the underlying implementation details depending on which environment it is being run in (i.e. JavaScriptCore, Chrome, Node).
The focus here was on stubbing out the machinery required to get React Native Chrome debugging working with the Realm API by leveraging synchronous requests. The app itself will need to run a web server that responds to these requests.
Scott Kyle
Ari Lazier