[Feature Request] Possible improvements to cross-platform support

[leggomuhgreggo]

Background

I am working on implementing stripe in a cross-platform* expo app, and trying to sort through how to handle the stripe features for different platforms.

[ *Technically it's only shipping to ios, but we use web for E2E testing ]

Acknowledgements

To be fair, it's really not much trouble for us to write our implementation so that the Stripe SDK invocations are behind platform conditioning — just shimming the export interface in a parallel *.web.tsx file, etc

And I understand that this library is intended for just native platforms. [ Related: #372 (comment) ]

Platform Conditioning?

But it would be so cool if the lib exports had platform conditioning baked in. One alternative to shimming the "main" exported modules themselves, would be to shim/condition *just* the specific SDK features that relied on Native APIs — that way it would have at least partial functionality in web!

I think it might even be possible to condition those native API usages, based on the availability of the given API — as opposed to platform — that way if web browsers ever adds support for (say) bluetooth — the functionality will be there.

Conclusion

I understand if roadmap constraints + scope concerns make this difficult to accommodate in the near term. I suspect that this use case will become increasingly common, so it may be advantageous in that sense.

Thank you for your consideration!

EDIT: Oh it might also be nifty to support passing config via an init function, in the JS, instead of the app.json expo.plugins config. Avoids having to create new builds any time there's a change. 🤦 Doh! I Reviewed the plugin code and the interface is all appropriately build-level config. (Nice!!)