Using Cordova plugins in ReactNative

A tool use Cordova plugins with React Native - link

As ReactNative is maturing into a stable platform to create mobile applications for iOS and Android devices, developers are starting to need more native modules to leverage device APIs like bluetooth or the camera. Apache Cordova (formerly called Phonegap) is a similar runtime can be used to build mobile applications, but displays the user interface in a using a WebView. Apache Cordova also has an large eco system of plugins that enable these webview based applications to call native code.
In a previous blog post, I had written about the project where a ReactNative application could use the exiting Cordova plugins to call device APIs.
The project has evolved and supports many more plugins and features. Here is a kitchen sink like application with many Cordova plugins are added to the ReactNative applications.



The project has now been updated to support ReactNative 0.19+, and can also use Cordova 6.0+ plugins.
All these changes, including the  instructions on how to add the react-native-cordova-plugin into a ReactNative project are at the README file. 

Some of the big changes include

1. Support for plugins that run on initialization. For example, the cordova-device-plugin runs as soon as the app is initialized and makes a window.device object available, populated with attributes about the device.
2. Added support for event listeners so that plugins like geolocation or cordova-plugin-device-orientation can now subscribe to get updates when the compass changes. 
3. ReactNative 0.18+ changed the MainActivity and how native modules are included. These changes are now available in the plugin. 

Currently, the plugin adapter only supports Android and I am learning iOS to add iOS support too. Check out the project on github and open an issue to ask questions about the integration or to help with fixing a bug.