For anyone getting to know the react-native beast, this should help 🙂
I visited a couple of sites in the past too, but found it increasingly frustrating. Until I read this site here.
It’s a different approach but it eventually does pay off in the end.
Basically, the best approach would be to load all your resources in one place.
Consider the following structure
app
|--img
|--image1.jpg
|--image2.jpg
|--profile
|--profile.png
|--comments.png
|--index.js
In index.js
, you can do this:
const images = {
profile: {
profile: require('./profile/profile.png'),
comments: require('./profile/comments.png'),
},
image1: require('./image1.jpg'),
image2: require('./image2.jpg'),
};
export default images;
In your views, you have to import the images component like this:
import Images from './img/index';
render() {
<Image source={Images.profile.comments} />
}
Everybody has different means to an end, just pick the one that suits you best.
Da Man – Q: How is this answer using a variable?
Well, since require
only accepts a literal string, you can’t use variables, concatenated strings, etc. This is the next best thing. Yes, it still is a lot of work, but now you can do something resembling the OP’s question:
render() {
var images = { test100: "image100" };
return (
<View>
<Text>
test {images["test" + "100"]}
</Text>
</View>
);
}