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---
id: react-native
title: Building a React Native Plugin
---
<div class="warning">
This tutorial requires React Native 0.62 or higher.
</div>
Once you have connected Flipper to a React Native application,
writing your own Flipper plugin can be done without reaching into the native world.
To expose Flipper to the JavaScript world, the React Native Native Module `react-native-flipper` needs to be installed in the hosting application by running `yarn add react-native-flipper` and `cd ios && pod install`. If you are creating develop a plugin that is distributed as NPM package, make sure to add this to the installation instruction of your package as well!
Registering a new plugin is done by importing `addPlugin` from `"react-native-flipper"` and providing it an object that at least implements the method `getId` (the plugin id that should be used in the desktop plugin as well to make the connection) and two event handlers for the `onConnect` and `onDisconnect` events.
These `onConnect` and `onDisconnect` events are triggered every time the plugin becomes (in)active in the Flipper desktop application.
If the plugin is a [background plugin](../extending/create-plugin.md#background-plugins), these events are triggered typically only once (they might be triggered never, if the Desktop user didn't enable the plugin, or multiple times if they enabled or disabled the plugin a few times).
The `onConnect` callback receive a `connection` which can be used to communicate with the backend:
```javascript
import {addPlugin} from "react-native-flipper"
addPlugin({
getId() {
return 'ReactNativeExamplePlugin';
},
onConnect(connection) {
mammmals.forEach(({ title, pictureUrl }, index) => {
connection.send('newRow', {
id: index,
title,
url: pictureUrl
})
})
},
onDisconnect() {
}
})
```
You might want to store the connection somewhere to be able to send more events as long as `onDisconnect` event hasn't been fired.
The `connection` object can also be used to listen to messages coming from the Desktop plugin. See [Client Plugin API](create-plugin) for details.
An example plugin to play a little Tic-Tac-Toe between the Flipper Desktop and a React Native app can be found inside this repository as well (run `yarn && yarn android` in `react-native/ReactNativeFlipperExample` to start the test project):
* The React Native JavaScript based plugin implementation: [FlipperTicTacToe.js](https://github.com/facebook/flipper/tree/master/react-native/ReactNativeFlipperExample/FlipperTicTacToe.js)
* The Flipper Desktop plugin implementation: [rn-tic-tac-toe/index.tsx](https://github.com/facebook/flipper/blob/master/desktop/plugins/rn-tic-tac-toe/index.tsx)