IconButton crashes due to missing dependency on `react-native-vector-icons`

[T1t4m1un]

React Native Paper Version: 5.12.3 latest
React Native Version: 0.74.2 latest
Platform: Android

When using IconButton, the app crashes due to a missing dependency on react-native-vector-icons:

Reproduce:

• Step 1: Set up a new project with React Native and React Native Paper.
• Step 2: Try to use IconButton without manually adding react-native-vector-icons to the dependencies.
• Step 3: Observe the crash.

This problem has an overflow effect on components that use IconButton. I discovered the problem when using SearchBar.

[seb-zabielski]

Hey,
Installing react-native-vector-icons is one of the requirements. You can find more details in the documentation: https://callstack.github.io/react-native-paper/docs/guides/getting-started/

[jcubic]

@seb-zabielski if it's required, then why it's not a dependency? It would simplify the installation.

[seb-zabielski]

@jcubic
I took the advice on your question, and here is the answer I got:

autolinking doesn’t work (yet) with transitive dependencies, so even though it would be a dependency of paper, a user would still need to install it as their dep – causing potential version mismatches as well

Here you also have link to related discussion: react-native-community/cli#870

[naufanituharish]

@jcubic I took the advice on your question, and here is the answer I got:

autolinking doesn’t work (yet) with transitive dependencies, so even though it would be a dependency of paper, a user would still need to install it as their dep – causing potential version mismatches as well

Here you also have link to related discussion: react-native-community/cli#870

Currently the vector icon move to the new monorepo, can you fix this?

[lukewalczak]

Step 2: Try to use IconButton without manually adding react-native-vector-icons to the dependencies.

As mentioned above, react-native-vector-icons have to be installed in order to use components containing icons, such as IconButton.

Currently the vector icon move to the new monorepo, can you fix this?

Working on that one.