Configure multiple transformers/resolvers using metro

Question

I'm trying to add multiple resolvers and transformers using metro for my react native project, how do I combine them in my metro.config.js file?

Background: I want to get both a sass transformer to work as well as a svg transformer.

I've tried the configurations separately and that seems to work, but I'm confused to how I combine them so they both work at the same time. I'm assuming they need to be in the same module.exports, because when they both are in the same file I get errors for my svg's

These are the configs I'm trying to combine:

module.exports = (async () => {
  const {
    resolver: { sourceExts, assetExts }
  } = await getDefaultConfig();
  return {
    transformer: {
      babelTransformerPath: require.resolve("react-native-svg-transformer")
    },
    resolver: {
      assetExts: assetExts.filter(ext => ext !== "svg"),
      sourceExts: [...sourceExts, "svg"]
    }
  };
})();

module.exports = (async () => {
  const {
    resolver: { sourceExts }
  } = await getDefaultConfig();
  return {
    transformer: {
      babelTransformerPath: require.resolve("react-native-sass-transformer")
    },
    resolver: {
      sourceExts: [...sourceExts, "scss", "sass"]
    }
  };
})();

When I try to run it with the code as above, that is two module exports in the metro.config.js, it seems that only the sass transformer works, when I try to draw an svg I get the following error:

Invariant violation: Element type is invalid: Expected a string (for built-in components) or a class/function (for composite components) but got number.

Daniel Daniel · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-26T14:48:18

I solved it by creating a custom transformer as follows:

customTransformer.js :

// For React Native version 0.59 or later
var upstreamTransformer = require("metro-react-native-babel-transformer");
var sassTransformer = require("react-native-sass-transformer");
var svgTransformer = require("react-native-svg-transformer");

module.exports.transform = function({ src, filename, options }) {
  if (filename.endsWith(".scss") || filename.endsWith(".sass")) {
    return sassTransformer.transform({ src, filename, options });
  } else if (filename.endsWith(".svg")) {
    return svgTransformer.transform({ src, filename, options });
  }  else {
    return upstreamTransformer.transform({ src, filename, options });
  }
};

And in my metro.config.js:

const { getDefaultConfig } = require("metro-config");

module.exports = (async () => {
  const {
    resolver: { sourceExts, assetExts }
  } = await getDefaultConfig();
  return {
    transformer: {
      babelTransformerPath: require.resolve("./customTransformer.js")
    },
    resolver: {
      assetExts: assetExts.filter(ext => ext !== "svg" && ext!=="scss"),
      sourceExts: [...sourceExts, "svg", "scss", "sass"]
    }
  };
})();

No idea if this is the best way, but it seems to work

Configure multiple transformers/resolvers using metro

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