Plugins can be used to extend the health checks that react-native doctor
runs. This can be used to add additional checks for out of tree platforms, or other checks that are specific to a community module.
See Plugins
for information about how plugins work.
To provide additional health checks, a package needs to have a react-native.config.js
at the root folder in order to be discovered by the CLI as a plugin.
module.exports = {
healthChecks: [
{
label: 'Foo',
healthchecks: [
label: 'bar-installed',
getDiagnostics: async () => ({
needsToBeFixed: !isBarInstalled()
}),
runAutomaticFix: async ({loader}) => {
await installBar();
loader.succeed();
},
}
],
};
Above is an example of a plugin that extends the healthChecks performed by
react-native doctor
to check ifbar
is installed.
At the startup, React Native CLI reads configuration from all dependencies listed in package.json
and reduces them into a single configuration.
At the end, an array of health check categories is concatenated to be checked when react-native doctor
is run.
type HealthCheckCategory = {
label: string;
healthchecks: HealthCheckInterface[];
};
Name of the category for this health check. This will be used to group health checks in doctor.
Array of health checks to perform in this category
type HealthCheckInterface = {
label: string;
visible?: boolean | void;
isRequired?: boolean;
description?: string;
getDiagnostics: (
environmentInfo: EnvironmentInfo,
) => Promise<{
version?: string;
versions?: [string];
versionRange?: string;
needsToBeFixed: boolean | string;
}>;
win32AutomaticFix?: RunAutomaticFix;
darwinAutomaticFix?: RunAutomaticFix;
linuxAutomaticFix?: RunAutomaticFix;
runAutomaticFix: RunAutomaticFix;
};
Name of this health check
If set to false, doctor will ignore this health check
Is this health check required or optional?
Longer description of this health check
Functions which performs the actual check. Simple checks can just return needsToBeFixed
. Checks which are looking at versions of an installed component (such as the version of node), can also return version
, versions
and versionRange
to provide better information to be displayed in react-native doctor
when running the check
This function will be used to try to fix the issue when react-native doctor
is run on a windows machine. If this is not specified, runAutomaticFix
will be run instead.
This function will be used to try to fix the issue when react-native doctor
is run on a macOS machine. If this is not specified, runAutomaticFix
will be run instead.
This function will be used to try to fix the issue when react-native doctor
is run on a linux machine. If this is not specified, runAutomaticFix
will be run instead.
This function will be used to try to fix the issue when react-native doctor
is run and no more platform specific automatic fix function was provided.
type RunAutomaticFix = (args: {
loader: Ora;
logManualInstallation: ({
healthcheck,
url,
command,
message,
}: {
healthcheck?: string;
url?: string;
command?: string;
message?: string;
}) => void;
environmentInfo: EnvironmentInfo;
}) => Promise<void> | void;
A reference to a ora
instance which should be used to report success / failure, and progress of the fix. The fix function should always call either loader.succeed()
or loader.fail()
before returning.
If an automated fix cannot be performed, this function should be used to provide instructions to the user on how to manually fix the issue.
Provides information about the current system
A health check that requires the user to manually go download/install something. This check will immediately display a message to notify the user how to fix the issue.
async function needToInstallFoo({loader, logManualInstallation}) {
loader.fail();
return logManualInstallation({
healthcheck: 'Foo',
url: 'https:/foo.com/download',
});
}
A health check that runs some commands locally which may fix the issue. This check will display a spinner while the exec commands are running. Then once the commands are complete, the spinner will change to a checkmark.
import { exec } from 'promisify-child-process';
async function fixFoo({loader}) {
await exec(`foo --install`);
await exec(`foo --fix`);
loader.succeed();
}