Current behaviour
When re-exporting components from react-native paper, e.g. export { TextInput } from 'react-native-paper, the components are not styled using the theme set in the Provider.
Investigating I found that it seemed related to the babel plugin which does not rewrite these imports. I can't explain though why these paths not being re-written is actually causing issues in applying the theme 🤔
Expected behaviour
export { TextInput } from 'react-native-paper
Should use the theme set in the app's Provider.
And the babel plugin should accurately rewrite the import paths
How to reproduce?
With an app (shows the theme issue):
Latest 'react-native-paper', an app theme which overrides a color for example onSurface which is used in TextInput.
themeProvider.ts
const theme = {
...DefaultTheme,
colors: {
...DefaultTheme.colors,
onSurface: 'black',
},
};
export default function Main() {
return (
<PaperProvider theme={theme}>
<App />
</PaperProvider>
);
src/components/index.ts
export { TextInput } from 'react-native-paper'
In the babel tests of this repo (shows the babel issue):
I also checked the babel implementation. If you:
- Add
export { TextInput } from 'react-native-paper'; https://github.com/callstack/react-native-paper/blob/main/src/babel/__fixtures__/rewrite-imports/code.js
- Run tests
- You see that the test generates an output with
+ export { TextInput } from 'react-native-paper';, which is not rewritten to the full path. My assumption is that this is what is causing the app them behavior
Preview
with the re-export:

with the explicit import & then export:

What have you tried so far?
Adding an explicit import, followed by explicit export
Your Environment
| software |
version |
| ios |
x |
| android |
x |
| react-native |
x.x.x |
| react-native-paper |
5.14.5 |
| node |
x.x.x |
| npm or yarn |
x.x.x |
| expo sdk |
x.x.x |