Webview bridge communication — is it really that smooth?

This post will dive into the implementation of a React-Native webview that communicates with the loading web page, its API and how we faced its challenges here in Soluto. More than once I’ve heard about the idea of a webview pattern, or Bridge, sounds like some magic that helps you “bridge” the gaps of communication between your app and its internal loading web app. My team and I imagined this would be smooth and easy — until we realised that something is missing. What would give us thee indication that something actually triggered and succeeded inside that black-box called webview…