What is the best way to integrate a react-native application into another react-native application? - react-native

Question

I've implemented a react-native application and now I want to enhance it by adding along side it another different react-native application.
What i want to achieve is to keep the two application separated in order to continue to implement them as two separate application, and avoid to rewrite them completely as a single application.
Both application are using react-redux to handle their states. The first brutal approach which I have tried is to wrap one of the two application into a npm package and add it as a dependence of the other one. Then I've just added a tab to the main application which when clicked navigate to the second application. This approach seems to work, but I don't think is the best way to do it.
Do you think there could be any sort of problem doing so? Is there a more intelligent and elegant way to do it? I know it is kinda a generic question, so I would accept also an article/link about this argument.

Answer 1

You can create a git tag of your second application and can add it as a dependency in your first application.
You can also add it as a git sub-module.
P.S. i prefer the first one.

Answer 2

I think the best way to do it would be Linking as described here: Basic usage. So, you can easily pass needed parameters to the other app you want to open and also read them as app opens. Check this simple example:
Caller app:
Linking.openURL('calleeApp://app?param1=test&param2=test2')
Callee app:
componentDidMount() {
Linking.getInitialURL().then((url) => {
if (url) {
console.log('Initial url is: ' + url);
}
}).catch(err => console.error('An error occurred', err));
}
do not forget to import it first:
import { Linking } from "react-native";
Let me know if it worked for you!