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Ref ENG-3646

What & why

Was: React Native surveys always rendered light, and the SDK dropped the workspace's compiled custom CSS.
Now: setAppearance("light" | "dark" | "system") switches surveys, live while open. Compiled workspace and survey CSS reach renderSurvey.

  • Works before setup, or via setup({ appearance }). Kept across logout, forgotten on app restart, never persisted or sent to the server. An unknown value logs and falls back to light.
  • "system" follows the app's theme (Appearance.getColorScheme()), not the phone's; the native listener exists only while a survey is shown.
  • The WebView source HTML never changes after display (that would reload and lose answers); live changes go through injectJavaScript with ?. so older servers stay light.
  • customCss forwarded untouched, empty fields omitted, no key when there is none.

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Behaviour Level Evidence
State, unknown value, system resolution and live updates, listener removal, customCss omit/forward, WebView props unit (mutation) appearance.test.ts, utils.test.ts, survey-web-view-harness.test.ts. Rerun: pnpm test
Live switch keeps the answer, custom CSS applies on a device manual Not recorded, see Open gaps

Open gaps

  • No screen recording from me. The playground red-screens in debug builds with Requiring unknown module "react". That is a bug already in the published 3.2.0, not in this PR: vite.config.ts does not externalize react/jsx-runtime (cause and fix in the comment below). Javi's QA covers the behaviour on iOS and Android; the same WebView and renderer path is recorded on feat: add setAppearance for dark mode and forward custom CSS [ENG-3644] ios#64.
  • A theme change between the WebView mounting and the survey bundle loading is missed.
  • Needs a server whose renderer has setAppearance; older servers stay light.

Breaking changes

  • None. Purely additive API.

Migrations & env

None. The playground gains appearance buttons and userInterfaceStyle: "automatic".


Agent: claude-sonnet-5-5 (Claude Code), effort unknown.

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The React Native SDK adds light, dark, and system appearance settings, including a public setter and live updates while a survey is open. Survey rendering now receives resolved appearance and available workspace- and survey-level custom CSS. The playground adds controls for changing the SDK appearance and app color scheme. The README documents appearance behavior and constraints.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to aefea

A survey may retain the previous theme if it changes during loading, and the package test run fails in normal order. Address both before merging.

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Review comments at @packages/react-native/src/components/survey-web-view.tsx:
- Around line 111-115: Update the appearance flow around `renderSurvey` so
changes made before the asynchronous renderer is ready are not lost when the
watcher advances `applied`. Retain the latest appearance and apply it after
`renderSurvey` completes, while preserving the existing behavior for appearances
changed after the renderer is ready.

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- Around line 24-26: Update the afterEach hook to clear mock call history
between tests while retaining vi.restoreAllMocks(), so the persistent remove
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Pre-existing, not caused by this PR: the SDK red-screens debug builds on current Expo/RN (this is why the playground didn't run)

QA with a fresh Expo 57 / RN 0.86.3 app and default Metro config. This PR's build and the published @formbricks/react-native@3.2.0 both crash at startup in debug builds with Requiring unknown module "react". Release builds are fine.

Left: red screen "Requiring unknown module react". Right: the survey renders after externalizing react/jsx-runtime

Why: Metro resolves the package through exports → import → dist/index.js. vite.config.ts externalizes react but not react/jsx-runtime, so the dist inlines React's JSX runtime. Its dev branch calls require("react") through a bundler shim Metro can't resolve, because Metro only rewrites literal require(...) calls. Release builds take the production branch, which never makes that call.

Proposed solution: externalize the JSX runtime in packages/react-native/vite.config.ts:

         external: [
           "react",
+          "react/jsx-runtime",
+          "react/jsx-dev-runtime",
           "react-native",

Verified locally: with this change the dist imports react/jsx-runtime instead of inlining it, and the same app runs with default Metro settings (right side of the screenshot). Until it ships, apps can set config.resolver.unstable_enablePackageExports = false in metro.config.js. It affects 3.2.0 users today, so it probably deserves its own small PR and patch release rather than riding on this one.

A setAppearance call before the renderer existed was injected as a no-op
but still recorded as applied, so the survey stayed light and repeats were
deduplicated. The page now posts onSurveyRendered and the host holds changes
until then, sending the latest one if it differs from the initial value.
startInLoadingState without renderLoading shows react-native-webview's
default loader, an opaque white full-screen view, until the page loads. The
WebView is already transparent and the renderer paints the card once ready,
matching the iOS and Android SDKs.
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