Not working in Expo standalone

[blocksolution]

Even if it's possible in expo standalone apps to use metro.config.js, this plugin simply do nothing.

Any clue on how to debug it?

[AnzeBlaBla]

The plugin seems to get some values (like the final bundle path) from process.argv, which are not supplied when running with expo (expo export --platform android --dev -p http://localhost:8000 for example).

I suggest for @whoami-shubham to add all the options the plugin takes from argv as runOptions and if they're not present, use argv.

I might make a pull request to implement this if I have the time.

[whoami-shubham]

@AnzeBlaBla Thanks for the suggestion, a PR would be appreciated, I don't use expo, so I might not be able to recreate and test the fix for this issue.

[AnzeBlaBla]

We decided not to implement obfuscation yet, but when we do, I'll make a PR to be able to use this plugin

[TowhidKashem]

It worked for me on a managed expo app using a custom dev-client when I built a stand alone app for IOS through eas build command. Confirmed using https://github.com/nomi9995/react-native-decompiler. The other main react native ofuscator plugin on the other hand didn't do anything. This one works if you add a metro.config.js file (if you are ejected you should have one already) at the root with the following contents:

require('dotenv').config();
const { mergeConfig } = require('metro-config');
const { getDefaultConfig } = require('expo/metro-config');
const metroObfuscator = require('obfuscator-io-metro-plugin');

const defaultConfig = getDefaultConfig(__dirname);

let metroConfig = defaultConfig;

if (process.env.ENVIRONMENT === 'production') {
  const obfuscator = metroObfuscator(
    {
      // see: https://github.com/javascript-obfuscator/javascript-obfuscator#options
      compact: false,
      sourceMap: false,
      controlFlowFlattening: true,
      controlFlowFlatteningThreshold: 1,
      numbersToExpressions: true,
      simplify: true,
      stringArrayShuffle: true,
      splitStrings: true,
      stringArrayThreshold: 1
    },
    {
      runInDev: false,
      logObfuscatedFiles: false
    }
  );

  metroConfig = mergeConfig(defaultConfig, obfuscator); // right side value takes precedence
}

module.exports = metroConfig;

@whoami-shubham thanks for the plugin, it saved my day! The only issue I have now is it doesn't support json files, if I paste the same json files on the online editor here https://obfuscator.io/ it obfuscates it just fine so I know the underlying lib supports it. Would be great if this wrapper could pass those json files through as well!

[whoami-shubham]

Hi @TowhidKashem can you try this exact version 2.1.0 https://www.npmjs.com/package/obfuscator-io-metro-plugin/v/2.1.0, I tried some fix for JSON, but it wasn't fully tested so I reverted the change in next version.
exts: "/.(j|t)s(x)?$/" is extra option that was added in run config.

[AlenToma]

for json, try to use a library I build togather with this one node.data.obfuscator

[F170x]

I've the same issue, I'm trying to use it with an ejected expo project (bare workflow).

@TowhidKashem I applied your config to metro.config.js, but when I do expo export --dump-sourcemap --public-url ... I have the following warning:

warning: Obfuscation SKIPPED [Not a bundle command]

I found that the warning comes from here: https://github.com/whoami-shubham/obfuscator-io-metro-plugin/blob/master/lib/utils.js#L28

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Note: I verified the bundle created and, as expected, it's not obfuscated.

[CostasCF]

@F170x any updates? I get warning: Obfuscation SKIPPED [Not a bundle command] as well

[F170x]

@CostasCF no updates, I don't know how to use it with Expo

[CostasCF]

@CostasCF no updates, I don't know how to use it with Expo

I used proguard instead for Android, checked the bundle created and indeed it was working.

However, I am going to try to use this tool again and update you if I find anything.

[ColeTownsend]

@CostasCF any luck?

[CostasCF]

@CostasCF any luck?

Unfortunately not. It doesn't seem to be working with Expo at the moment.