WebStorm auto completion does not work for React js - reactjs

I've created a project using create-react-app. I have switched my JavaScript language version to React JSX in Preferences | Languages & Frameworks | JavaScript.
But I still have unresolved variable warning and unresolved function warning.

The simplest way to achieve correct code completion while developing any (not only react) app is to add support for required type scrip libraries via IDE itself. Assuming you using JetBrains IDE for web dev (may be not WebStorm but IntelliJ IDEA):
go to Settings (Ctrl + Alt + S) -> Languages & Frameworks
expand JavaScript
pick Libraries, you'll see something like this
click Download...
search for any libraries you need (you can just start typing lib name in libs list), then click Download and Install
when using react, I suggest to add: react; react-dom; react-native (if you interested in mobile dev)
click Apply when you done
commonly you don't need to restart IDE, changes will apply immediately.
Happy coding!

To enhance code completion we recommend that you add a TypeScript
definition file for React with npm install --save #types/react
ref: blog.jetbrains

On WebStorm, open Preferences, Expand the Languages & Frameworks, then expand JavaScript, click on Libraries. Click the Add button and add react to list of libraries.
Restart WebStorm.
Or
You do this:
You can add a TypeScript definition for React with npm install --save #types/react

Also, for reference, according to https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-24780#comment=27-2681125 it is possible to solve it entirely within IntelliJ instead of running the npm command manually.
You can search for all the packages you need for the autocompletion.

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Should we bundle shared component library separately in lerna monorepo?

I have three packages inside standard lerna monorepo.
client
react library
core
Core - is a shared component library with some utils (may or may not publish on npm).
React library is component library which will be shared on npm.
client is a bundled js library which will be consumed in browser with static html files.
core is a dependency in react-lib as well as client
Question 1 - How to setup core, should I transpile with tsc and bundle with tools such as rollup or vite (i personally prefer vite/rollup over webpack). or just leave it as is and import it in client and react-lib with absolute paths like 'core/src/*"?
Question 2 - can i build core in 'es' format and build client just like normal react app with either cra or vite. I tried this but i think i am missing something as final bundle doesn't seem to work in browser.
Any help would be really appreciated.
You have a few questions and I might not be able to answer them all but hopefully enough to guide you for the solution you're looking for.
Core - is a shared component library with some utils (may or may not publish on npm).
If you want to use Lerna then I guess you'll have to eventually publish the package on npm or a private repository. As an alternative, you could also use pnpm workspaces and their workspace: protocol which will allow you to link the packages in your workspace (monorepo) without ever downloading them from npm, for example if you use workspace:* then it will always use and link to the latest code from your local workspace. You could also use workspace: protocol with Lerna (or Lerna-Lite) since they both support it.
For your next Questions, I'll answer the last part of your Question 1 first because that affects the other portion of the question.
Question 1: ...or just leave it as is and import it in client and react-lib with absolute paths like 'core/src/*'?
Use absolute paths outside of the package is not a good thing to do since it will only work on your local project and you cannot publish that to npm since it will be broken for the other users. It's better to stick with the workspace and let the package use the main or exports entries defined in your package.json. In other words, it's preferable to always build/transpile and let your other package use the transpiled code and if you need to debug then make sure to also include sourcemap
Question 1: How to setup core, should I transpile with tsc and bundle with tools such as rollup or vite (i personally prefer vite/rollup over webpack)
It probably doesn't matter which one you use TypeScript, Rollup or WebPack, In one of my project I use TypeScript in watch mode, it will auto-transpile whenever you change your code, the downside is that the more packages you have then the more TypeScript threads are opened in watch mode (1x per package) but in your case if you only have 3 then it's fine, there's also this TypeScript issue that I'm following which will hopefully bring multi-threaded compilation in the future. You could also use Rollup and the concept would be the same, use it in watch mode for each package (I've done it with Vite/Rollup using vite build --watch
as explained in the next paragraph).
You can take a look at a project I've done Vue 3 and pnpm workspace using pnpm workspace with the workspace: protocol, it uses Rollup for transpiling and also uses Vite library mode which allows to bundle your library for distribution (on npm or others...), this allows you to bundle each package as a lib that is easily reusable by other projects. It's a Vue 3 project, so it's not a React project but it should give you enough ideas on how to do in React and it should help to answer your Question 2. Also that project is not using Lerna/Lerna-Lite but since it uses the workspace: protocol then it would be super easy to add Lerna on top of it in the future (basically just adding the lerna.json config should be enough)

Issue installing react-reveal

I am new to react and I am even newer to typescript. I am working on this project right now and I need to use this specific git repository which is a typescript project. I want to add react-reveal so I can have some cool animations on my website but I get this error message.
I am not sure why this specific library is not working because I have installed other librarys like reactstrap. If anyone could give me any information on how to get this to work or why this isn't working it would be much appreciated!
React-reveal doesn't seem to be actively maintained as it was last updated on August 2018.
Based on the error you received it looks that there is a library that is explicitly configured to only work with React v15 or v16. You could use a slightly older version of React that works with react-reveal. You're using React 17.0.2. You could try using React v16.14.0.
You could also follow the instructions in the error message - using the force option. Here is a link(npm: When to use `--force` and `--legacy-peer-deps`) that describes how that works.
A better way to go is search for a more popular actively maintained alternative like react-spring(https://react-spring.io/) or react-awesome-reveal(https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-awesome-reveal).
I found the problem, you must put this command in the terminal => npm config set legacy-peer-deps true

How to make changes to third party package in React Native 0.60+

I'm struggling with making changes and possible a pull request for a third party react native package with cocoapods and auto linking.
In this case I want to add some minor functionality to React Native Camera. And I've forked the repo.
While developing I'd like to use my local code, but I can't get it to work.
I'ven tried using npm link, but this doesn't work since React Native can't find the linked package with the TypeScript import statement.
I've also tried just to edit Objective C code directly in node_modules, running pod install again and rerunning react-native run-ios, but it doesn't seem to include my changes.
I've never really made pull requests to other packages before, so I think I need some help. I thought this would be the easiest thing to google, but it turns out it's not.
You may be doing this already, but make sure that you clean and rebuild the project from xcode if you're modifying objective C code in the node modules folder, before re running react-native run-ios.
If you've already installed the library you also shouldn't need to rerun pod install.
Similarly on android, be sure to rebuild the project in android studio.

Creating a UI component library with react-native for android apps

I want to use my UI components as a reusable seperate repo/project for my react-native iniit App.
So i creatd a seperate project folder like this
and installed these dependencies
and few dependencies externally with my other app.
Then i used
yarn link
to link this project to my working app as a module just like a node module. but i get this error when i try to run my app?
Is there an issue with my method, or is there a sure way i can try to reach my goal because i found multiple ways and various configuration of creating such component libraries.but i didn't use any since the end goal is different.
This is a known issue with the React Native packager. See this discussion: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/637.
This may have to do with using watchman, although there seem to be a few different cases where this can crop up.
TL;DR: React Native packager does not respect symlinks to projects, so npm and yarn link do not work like you would expect them to. Apparently this is being resolved in metro-bundler: https://github.com/facebook/metro-bundler/issues/1.
Unfortunately the workarounds are not that pretty, but there are a few options discussed in the issue 637 discussion. It also looks like you may be using a github repo for your package.
You could tell npm to get your library from github via your project's package.json, so you probably do not need npm link, though you will not be able to link to your local files for your module this way.

Deploy React components to many personal projects

I hope this is a reasonable forum for this question.
I have a library of React components that I've developed that I'd like to use in multiple personal projects. When I update/improve that library I'd like it to allow me to update in all projects where it is used.
I'm using Meteor as a build tool, which will prompt me when there is an update available for a dependency it's using, so I assume it'd be an NPM module or something. It is checked in to GitHub and I don't mind if it's public.
What would be the best way to achieve this?
I know two ways:
Publish your module on NPM
Link using npm link
For the first one, your module will be public unless you pay NPM for a private module.
The second one, make your module available locally only (It is used for a development purpose, but it fits your needs).
https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/link
If you have your package published on GitHub, you can simply create dependency by linking to tarball/master. If your path is https://github.com/my-nick/my-package, just add to your dependencies in your project's package.json:
"my-package": "https://github.com/my-nick/my-package/tarball/master"
If you have your package well described (package.json file with name, main and version attributes) it should works after meteor npm install.
Of course it works for Meteor 1.3 and higher only, lower versions don't support npm.
I did not use is personally yet, but an frequently mentioned tool for this purpose is https://lernajs.io/, which is e.g. used by create-react-app.

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