Using Transpiled Libraries and Custom Integrations in Skip Fuse

[ajayjapan]

Hey everyone! I’m building a Skip Fuse app and want to integrate PostHog. I have a couple questions:
1. Can a transpiled package (similar to Skip-Stripe) be used directly in a native Fuse app?
2. If I build my own PostHog integration, should it be written in native Fuse mode, or should I follow the transpiled-package approach?

[marcprux]

Assuming that PostHog's API (with which I am not familiar) is mostly in Java/Kotlin, then yes: you will most likely want to have a transpiled module with bridging enabled so you can access it from your native modules. E.g., see https://github.com/skiptools/skip-keychain/blob/main/Sources/SkipKeychain/Skip/skip.yml

The magic part would be to conditionally add a package dependency on SkipBridge, like we do at https://github.com/skiptools/skip-keychain/blob/main/Package.swift#L26. That way, your package can be seamlessly used from either another transpiled Skip Lite module or from a compiled Skip Fuse module.

Let me know if this makes sense. This would make a useful contribution to the Skip modules ecosystem, so I've gone ahead and created a skeleton of a project that has the correct dependencies at https://github.com/skiptools/skip-posthog.git. If you'd like to fork that and "fill in the blanks" (i.e., add the necessary configure and logging functions), we'd love the contribution!

[ajayjapan]

Thanks! I saw you already started on it too. Really appreciate it. Will give it a try. If I see extra stuff I need I will fork and fill in the blanks.

[marcprux]

I actually ran with this and filled in a lot more of the API, so you might be able to just use the package directly (https://github.com/skiptools/skip-posthog). But please do feel free to file issues/PRs if you need any additional features or if something isn't working.

[ajayjapan]

@marcprux thanks for creating skip-posthog. its been a huge help.

I am about to embark on trying to add support for:

1. Socket.io

• https://socket.io/blog/socket-io-on-ios/
• https://socket.io/blog/native-socket-io-and-android/

2. Sentry

• https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/android/
• https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/apple/

Was just wondering if either would be same treatment as posthog (adding it to the skiptools modules ecosystem).

[marcprux]

Those sound like they could be very useful to the Skip community, so I've created https://github.com/skiptools/skip-socketio and https://github.com/skiptools/skip-sentry. They are both very bare-bones, but they have the dependencies set up and some very minimal API sketched out, along with CI.

You are welcome to fork them and contribute!

[ajayjapan]

Thank you! Have a small pull request for the posthog one coming soon!