React Native how to import a docx file from assets

Question

Any ideas on why this doesn't work:

import Timesheet from './Timesheet.docx'

Works in the web browser, it gets imported and I can use the url to access the file later in the code.

When I use expo on android it returns as "module not found, file not found error"

Any thoughts on how to correct this?

Answer 1

you need to do something like this

in your assets folder create a index.js file then add the following (assuming your Timesheet.docx is in the same directory)

const timeSheet = require("./Timesheet.docx");
export { timeSheet };

In the file that need the timesheet

import { timeSheet } from './assets'