feat: expose ref to the underlying View - #775
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On web the provider always renders a wrapping View, which is not always wanted, for example when the provider is mounted at the root of an app by ExpoRoot. Add an undocumented, unstable opt out that renders children directly instead. Since there is no view to measure when the wrapper is gone, insets and frame fall back to window values, which is the existing behaviour of the branch that runs when the provider element cannot be measured. For the same reason style and the ref added in appandflow#775 have no element to apply to, so ref stays null while the prop is set. The prop is web only. The default path and every other platform are unchanged.
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Summary
Currently the library doesn't expose a
refto the underlying native view. This exposes thereffor React 19+.In my case, I need to use
ref.measureto measure and use layout before paint on the new architecture, which isn't possible withonLayoutEffect. Currently passing the ref technically works on native, but results in a type error.Test Plan
The change is straightforward. I also tested in react-navigation/react-navigation#13251