Snack SDK Migration Guide

This guide helps with migration from snack-sdk@2 to snack-sdk@3.

Conceptually, v3 is similar to v2 and exposes a Snack Session class which can be used to create Snacks, save them and connect to them using the Expo client. The API and types have however been overhauled to provide a leaner and more consistent API. V3 also supports first class TypeScript support, but the flow typings have been removed.

Imports

Before (using flow)

import { SnackSession } from 'snack-sdk'; // 2.x.x
import type { ExpoSnackFiles } from 'snack-sdk'; // 2.x.x

const files: ExpoSnackFiles = {
  'App.js': {
    type: 'CODE',
    contents: `console.log('Hello Snack!');`,
  },
};
const session = new SnackSession({
  ...
});
session.sendCodeAsync(files);

After (using TypeScript)

import { Snack, SnackFiles } from 'snack-sdk'; // 3.x.x

const files: SnackFiles = {
  'App.js': {
    type: 'CODE',
    contents: `console.log('Hello Snack!');`,
  },
};
const snack = new Snack({
  files,
});

Snack class comparison

Version 2	Version 3	Description
startAsync		Method was removed, use setOnline(true) instead.
stopAsync		Method was removed, use setOnline(false) instead.
setPubNubEnabled		Method was removed, use setOnline instead.
getUrlAsync		Method has been removed, use getState().url instead.
getChannel		Method was removed, use getState().channel instead.
	setOnline	startAsync and setPubNubEnabled were tightly coupled and could result in invalid behavior when used incorrectly. These APIs have been merged into the setOnline method which starts both the PubNub transport and the DevSession advertisement as the same time.
sendCodeAsync		Method was removed, use updateFiles instead.
	updateFiles	Updates the code/asset files after which they are automatically sent to the connected clients whenever ready. This method replaces sendCodeAsync.
addModuleAsync		Method was removed, use updateDependencies instead.
removeModuleAsync		Method was removed, use updateDependencies instead.
syncDependenciesAsync		Method was removed, use updateDependencies instead.
	updateDependencies	Updates the dependencies and starts the resolving process if needed. This method replaces addModuleAsync, removeModuleAsync and syncDependenciesAsync.
reloadSnack	reloadConnectedClients	Method was renamed to reloadConnectedClients. In contrast to reloadSnack, reloadConnectedClients waits for all clients to be reloaded before resolving the returned Promise.
setSdkVersion	setSDKVersion	Method was renamed to setSDKVersion.
setFocus(true/false)	setFocus()	Method signature has changed and the boolean argument was removed. It is now only possible to indicate that the Snack has received the focus.
saveAsync	saveAsync	No changes.
downloadAsync	getDownloadURLAsync	Method was renamed to getDownloadURLAsync and allows options for saveAsync to be passed to it.
uploadAssetAsync	uploadAssetAsync	No changes.
setName	setName	No changes.
setDescription	setDescription	No changes.
setDeviceId	setDeviceId	No changes.
setUser	setUser	No changes.
setSessionSecret (deprecated)		Method was removed, use setUser instead.
setAuthorizationToken (deprecated)		Method was removed, use setUser instead.
getState	getState	Returns the new SnackState object.
	getStateAsync	Waits for any async operations such as asset uploads and dependency resolvers to complete before returning the state.
addStateListener	addStateListener	Method signature was changed.
addLogListener	addLogListener	Method signature was changed.
addErrorListener		Method was removed, use addStateListener instead and compare whether the errors have changed.
addPresenceListener		Method was removed, use addStateListener instead and compare the connectedClients field.
supportsFeature		Method was removed.
	getPreviewAsync	New method that requests a preview from the connected devices and returns an image URL.
	setCodeChangesDelay	New method that sets the wait time before notifying the connected clients of any code updates.
	sendCodeChanges	New method that triggers an immediate send of any pending code changes to the connected clients.
	setDisabled	New method that disables the Snack entirely, effectively disabling any asynchronous asset uploads and dependency resolutions.

Globals comparison

Version 2	Version 3	Description
SDKVersions.version	getSupportedSDKVersions	Updated to method called getSupportedSDKVersions.
SDKVersions.sdkSupportsFeature	isFeatureSupported	Updated to method called isFeatureSupported.
isModulePreloaded	isModulePreloaded	Has been extended with optional 3rd parameter coreModulesOnly.
preloadedModules	getPreloadedModules	Updated to method called getPreloadedModules.
dependencyUtils	standardizeDependencies	Replaced by method standardizeDependencies.
supportedModules		Field has been removed.
getSupportedVersion		Method has been removed.
	isValidSemver	Checks whether a string is a valid semantic version.

Types

Nearly all type names have changed. Most notably, the Expo prefix has been removed from the types and all types now start with Snack.

The formats for the files and dependencies has remained the same compared to v2. The V1 compact files format has however been dropped and all files should be explicitely listed in the SnackFiles collection.