v0.8.0-rc.2 cannot resolve symbolic linked modules

[xinthink]

Hi,
I'm using npm link command to test my custom native component (in a demo app, it's opensource too), before it can be published to npm.

It worked fine with v0.7.1 and the previous. But v0.8.0-rc.2 complaints Unable to resolve module XXX, thrown at require.js:249

It seems the problem is that npm link results in symbolic link, for example:

my_app
   |-- node_modules
          |-- react-native 
          |-- my-module -> ~/.npm/my-module (another symbolic link pointing to my local module)

However, it does work if I copy all the files to node_modules/my-module, but I don't think it's a good solution.

I'd appreciate that it could be fixed when 0.8 is finally released.

[brentvatne]

Hi there! Thanks for letting us know that it's not working for you in 0.8.0, I pointed that out in #637 where this problem is being tracked - I hope we can get a fix in for 0.8 but realistically that might not happen unless someone from the community lends @amasad a hand. If you want to investigate a fix it would be much appreciated!