Why does @react-native-firebase/app depend on the Firebase JS SDK (firebase@11.3.1)?

[TrustyTechSG]

Hi team 👋

I noticed that @react-native-firebase/app includes a dependency on the Firebase JS SDK (firebase@11.3.1). Since this project wraps the native Firebase SDKs (Android/iOS), I’m wondering why the JS SDK is required at all.

I’m asking because in a monorepo setup (with both web and React Native projects), this creates conflicts or hoisting issues unless explicitly handled. It would be helpful to understand the reason for the dependency and whether it’s strictly required at runtime.

Thanks in advance for the clarification, and appreciate all the great work on this library 🙌

[mikehardy]

https://rnfirebase.io/platforms#other-platforms

We support an "other" platform (currently used to build and run natively on macOS) that uses firebase-js-sdk under the covers.

It's a hard requirement in order to support that platform that react-native-firebase has that dependency