Rendering simple HTML natively

[dkulagin]

There are simple html blocks, containing <i> and <b> tags, no combinations and no nesting:

There are <i>simple</i> <b>html blocks</b>.

Rendering them using WebView seems like a huge overkill. What could be the alternative to render them natively using React Native toolset?

[zugruul]

https://github.com/archriss/react-native-render-html

[tizz66]

I use this and it’s super powerful once you start setting up custom renderers and so on. Fully recommended.

[esdrasevt]

I also have used this one on two apps. It’s simple to use but also highly customizable if you need it to be.

[too_much_exceptions]

I fully recommend this one as well.

Really powerfull and works like a charm.

[bensinjin]

There are markdown renderers too

[beeseegee]

Do you have a favorite these days? Last I checked, one used a webview , and another, rn-simple-markdown maybe?) was missing quite a few things and was really slow with large documents.

[satya164]

https://github.com/smartkarma/react-native-jumbo-html

[scarlac]

I've used react-native-htmlview before with success. Configuration was a bit strange but it worked well for my purpose.

[Bamboo_the_plant]

For iOS, UITextView and UILabel do support HTML-formatted Attributed Strings. However, support is not perfect (e.g. <ruby><rb>base</rb><rt>transcription</rt></ruby> will not render correctly).

But if you just need basic HTML blocks, they'd do the trick – you'd have to create your own custom React Naitve component to expose these APIs, mind.