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[Draft] Experimental fork: replace native usage of `BigInt` with JSBI.
Due to the fact that React Native does not have strong support for BigInt
literals (see https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/34603#issuecomment-1241038509), this library (and, by extension, the entire Stellar JavaScript SDK, e.g. stellar-base
and stellar-sdk
) is not compatible with React Native.
The ecosystem recommendation is to use JSBI
as a drop-in replacement for BigInt
, then use a Babel plugin (transform-jsbi-to-bigint
) to transpile the final code to have native BigInt
s.
This is an experimental fork to port the codebase to use JSBI.
As far as I understand, we should not use the aforementioned plugin in this codebase and rather let downstream systems with strong BigInt
support do the replacement. Unfortunately, this would have to be an "opt-in" action rather than an "opt-out", so the best path forward to getting this into RN projects is still unclear.