How to load local text file into string variable in ReactNative Project?

Question

In my ReactNative project there are some static text files which i'd like to load into a string variable. Like this way:

var content = loadPlainTextFile("resources/tags.txt");
var tags = content.split("\n");

I tried require in the same way i'm requiring javascript files, but it doesn't work because react native gives exception "Unable to resolve module ./data/tags.txt".

var customData = require('./data/tags.txt');

I guess that require() is not able to handle plain text files?

How to do correctly?

Answer 1

The question is specifically asking about how to import a text file using something like:

import textFile from './textFile.txt'

This is possible using React-Native-Local-Resource. The library allows you to asynchronously load any type of text file.