Does React Native use require or import?

Question

Does React Native use require or import?

All I can find is an old tutorial using require(), but when I run react-native

Answer 1

React Native now uses Babel for "modules" compilation (doc). If scaffold an app with create-react-native-app, in folder node_modules, there is the Babel plugin named

babel-plugin-transform-es2015-modules-commonjs

, which is referenced across the app.

As name implies, this plugin just transforms ES2015 modules syntax to CommonJS.

For the main differences, I like this answer appearing in another post.