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Friday, 12. August 2016


Fable |> AsyncStorage – Data access with F# on React Native

Filed under: Diverses — Steffen Forkmann at 12:55 Uhr

I my last two articles I introduced React Native app development with F# and showed how we can do HTTP calls with the Fetch API. I also mentioned briefly how to access the local storage of your phone in order to cache information. In this article I want to look a small bit deeper into this.

React Native provides a basic abstraction called AsyncStorage that works on Android and iOS. With the help of a package called fable-react-native-simple-store we can use it from F#:

As you can see all JavaScript promises calls are mapped into F# async computations and everything is statically typed. This makes it easy to integrate the local storage with other F# code.

DataStore internals

AsyncStorage is a simple, unencrypted, asynchronous, persistent, key-value storage system that is global to the app. It should be used instead of LocalStorage. [project site]

AsyncStorage only provides a very basic key-value store. With the help of fable-react-native-simple-store we get something that allows us to store objects in arrays separated by type:

This is still a very low level data storage API, but as the sample app shows it’s already useful for caching specific app data.

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