Use with a local file

Question

The documentation says that the only way to reference a static image is to use require.

But I\'m not sure where does react expect to have those images. The examples don

Answer 1

It works exactly as you expect it to work. There's a bug https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/282 that prevents it from working correctly.

If you have node_modules (with react_native) in the same folder as the xcode project, you can edit node_modules/react-native/packager/packager.js and make this change: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/286/files . It'll work magically :)

If your react_native is installed somewhere else and the patch doesn't work, comment on https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/282 to let them know about your setup.