Not able to work with peer dependency in react native - react-native

Question

I have one react-native app in which I am using "json-schema-rules" library. Now I have also created one library which is getting used in my react-native app like this "file:../custom_library" in package.json.
Now to resolve the version conflict, I decided to use "json-schema-rules" as a peer dependency in my custom library. So, the package.json is like this
Package.json of my react-native app:
{
"dependencies": {
"json-rules-engine": "^2.3.0",
"custom_library": "file:../custom_library"
}
}
package.json of my custom_library:{
"peerDependencies": {
"json-schema-rules": "^2.3.0"
}
}
Now the problem is, whenever I am using metro bundler, I get an error
error: bundling failed: Error: Unable to resolve module json-rules-engine
json-rules-engine could not be found within the project.
This is the case when I am using it in peerDependencies, I do not get any error if I use this library in dependencies.
Please help.

Answer 1

You can try to add an alias for the module in your project's babel config.
This means that when your custom packages tries to import "json-rules-engine" it will get served the version from the main app.
First install 'babel-plugin-module-resolver' then configure the alias in "module-resolver"
babel.config.js
const config = {
presets: ["module:metro-react-native-babel-preset"],
plugins: [
[
"module-resolver",
{
root: ["./src"],
extensions: [".js", ".jsx", ".ios.js", ".android.js"],
alias: {
"json-rules-engine": require.resolve("json-rules-engine")
}
}
]
]
};
module.exports = config;