React Native & Cosmos DB - How to get them working together?

Zaher R 16

Hello,

There seem to be no direct support for React Native through Cosmos DB SDK or npm packages. The JS package @azure/cosmos while works on React Native for the Web, but does not build for the native apps. It fails to build due to Crypto incompatibility.

While Resource Tokens can serve as a solution for authentication, but App still needs to interact with the DB resources using an API. So, how to go around this? Is utilizing Azure Functions as a mid-tier the only workaround?

Thanks

Anurag Sharma 17,606 Reputation points

2020-08-04T07:53:35.487+00:00
Hi @Zaher R , thanks for reaching out to us.

There are couple of GitHub repositories you can refer for the above mentioned issue without the need of Azure Functions, please refer below:

https://github.com/Azure-Samples/react-cosmosdb

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-azure-cosmos

However, if these links do not help you, please let us know and we can further analyze the issue.
Zaher R 16 Reputation points

2020-08-05T16:23:38.543+00:00
Thanks for the reply Anurag.
We are aware of these libraries. Here are my comments:

https://github.com/Azure-Samples/react-cosmosdb: This is a NodeJS based library, it won't compile in React Native for iOS and Android. It works well on the web though.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-azure-cosmos: This offers a very limited capability, you can just query using SQL statement, and insert. You cannot do what the full SQL API does, and for sure cannot get a document by ID.

Regards

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