Bug Report: `children` type missing when using components import with Strict ABI

[salemkode]

Repository: my-expo-app

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Describe the bug

When using React Native Strict/Standard ABI together with react-native-css, importing components from:

import { View as ExpoView } from 'react-native-css/components';

results in a TypeScript error because children is not included in the type definition.

Additionally, Strict ABI updates the types of all React Native components in the project itself, but it does not update the types inside the react-native-css library, which creates a mismatch between project components and library components.

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Error message

app/index.tsx:12:6 - error TS2322: Type '{ children: Element; style: { flex: number; alignItems: "center"; padding: number; }; className: string; }' is not assignable to type 'IntrinsicAttributes & ViewProps & { className?: string | undefined; }'.
  Property 'children' does not exist on type 'IntrinsicAttributes & ViewProps & { className?: string | undefined; }'.

12     <ExpoView style={styles.container} className="bg-red-200">
        ~~~~~~~~

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Reproduction

• Repo: [my-expo-app](https://github.com/salemkode/my-expo-app.git)

• Steps:

  1. Clone repo
  2. Install deps
  3. Enable Strict ABI
  4. Run and observe the TypeScript error on ExpoView

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Expected behavior

ExpoView (and other components from react-native-css/components) should behave like normal React Native components extended with { className?: string }, meaning they should support children out of the box.

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Actual behavior

• Types are missing children.
• Project components get updated types from Strict ABI, but the library components keep outdated types, leading to incompatibility.

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Additional context

• The issue happens only with Strict/Standard ABI enabled.
• Without Strict ABI, the app compiles successfully.
• Using styled(RNView) directly works fine.
• Not sure if the fundamental fix should come from react-native-css directly or through additional adjustments in Strict ABI support.

[danstepanov]

@salemkode can you try this with the latest preview version of v5? (5.0.0-preview.2)