UserDefaults

An interface to the user’s defaults database, where you store key-value pairs persistently across launches of your app. Inspired by UserDefaults.

• ✅ Built with Expo's Module API
• ✅ Written in TypeScript and Swift
• 🍎 Currently iOS only

Installation

1. Install the package

yarn add @alevy97/react-native-userdefaults

2. Install pods

npx pod-install

Usage

Standard Defaults

The most common use case for using UserDefaults is to store small chunks of data to the standard defaults system. You can access the standard defaults system using the static property UserDefaults.standard or by creating a new UserDefaults instance.

UserDefaults.standard;

or equivalently

new UserDefaults();

Defaults with Suite Name

UserDefaults can also be used to store data that can be shared across multiple apps belonging to the same App Group, also known as a suite. To achieve this, provide a suite name (app group identifier) when creating a UserDefaults instance.

new UserDefaults("group.com.example.app");

Example

import { Button, View } from "react-native";
import UserDefaults from "@alevy97/react-native-userdefaults";

const standardDefaults = UserDefaults.standard; // or new UserDefaults()
const groupDefaults = new UserDefaults("group.com.example.app");

function App() {
  return (
    <View>
      <Button
        title="Set Values"
        onPress={async () => {
          await standardDefaults.set("darkMode", true);
          await groupDefaults.set("coolNumbers", [3.14, 2.71, 1.41]);
        }}
      />
      <Button
        title="Get Values"
        onPress={async () => {
          const darkMode = await standardDefaults.get("darkMode");
          const coolNumbers = await groupDefaults.get("coolNumbers");
          console.log(darkMode, coolNumbers);
        }}
      />
    </View>
  );
}

API

interface UserDefaults {
  /* Standard user defaults object */
  standard: UserDefaults;
  /* Get the value for a given key */
  get(forKey: string): Promise<any>;
  /* Set a value for a given key */
  set(forKey: string, value: any): Promise<void>;
  /* Remove a value for a given key */
  remove(forKey: string): Promise<void>;
  /* Removes all user default values */
  removeAll(): Promise<void>;
  /* Returns all user default values */
  getAll(): Promise<{ [key: string]: any }>;
}