How to use https agent in React Native?

[Shahanshah-TA]

Description

I need to call an api with https agent, but React native is not supporting https.

  const cert = await RNFS.readFile(certificatePath, 'utf8');
  const key = await RNFS.readFile(keyPath, 'utf8');
     const httpsAgent = new https.Agent({ //[ReferenceError: Property 'https' doesn't exist]
      cert: cert,
      key: key,
    });
   const response = await axios({
      method: 'PUT',
      url: `URL here`,
      data: data,
      httpsAgent: httpsAgent,
      headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'Content-Encoding': 'utf-8',
      },
    });

Steps to reproduce

1. Yarn android

React Native Version

0.71.8

Affected Platforms

Runtime - Android, Runtime - iOS

Output of npx react-native info

System:
    OS: macOS 14.5
    CPU: (11) arm64 Apple M3 Pro
    Memory: 67.53 MB / 18.00 GB
    Shell: 5.9 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 21.6.2 - /opt/homebrew/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.21 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn
    npm: 10.2.4 - /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
    Watchman: 2024.01.22.00 - /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman
  Managers:
    CocoaPods: 1.15.2 - /opt/homebrew/bin/pod
  SDKs:
    iOS SDK:
      Platforms: DriverKit 23.4, iOS 17.4, macOS 14.4, tvOS 17.4, visionOS 1.1, watchOS 10.4
    Android SDK: Not Found
  IDEs:
    Android Studio: 2023.2 AI-232.10227.8.2321.11479570
    Xcode: 15.3/15E204a - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
  Languages:
    Java: 17.0.10 - /usr/bin/javac
  npmPackages:
    @react-native-community/cli: Not Found
    react: 18.2.0 => 18.2.0 
    react-native: 0.71.8 => 0.71.8 
    react-native-macos: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    *react-native*: Not Found

Stacktrace or Logs

NA

Reproducer

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Screenshots and Videos

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[cortinico]

https.Agent is a Node API which is not supported by React Native.

[Shahanshah8791]

@cortinico any alternative for https.Agent or any suggestion how I can use. I tried multiple node supporting package such as https://www.npmjs.com/package/rn-nodeify https://github.com/parshap/node-libs-react-native but didn't get success.

[Megahedron69]

@Shahanshah8791 did you find any solution to this?

[Shahanshah-TA]

No @Megahedron69 I switched to native implementation. If you want you can fork this package rn-nodeify