Here is How to Generate SHA256 Encoded Hash from any Input Value in React Native. We will use the sha256 component from react-native-sha256 to convert our Input Text into SHA256 Hash.
SHA256 encoding comes into the scene when you talk about the security. Security can be of anything like it can be of your passwords, sessions keys or any other data.
SHA-256 stands for Secure Hash Algorithm – 256 bit and is a type of hash function commonly used in Blockchain. A hash function is a type of mathematical function which turns data into a fingerprint of that data called a hash. It’s like a formula or algorithm which takes the input data and turns it into an output of a fixed length, which represents the fingerprint of the data.
Generate SHA256 Encoded Hash
1 2 3 | sha256(this.state.text).then(hash => { console.log(hash) }); |
To Make a React Native App
Getting started with React Native will help you to know more about the way you can make a React Native project. We are going to use react-native init to make our React Native App. Assuming that you have node installed, you can use npm to install thereact-native-cli command line utility.
Open the terminal and go to the workspace and runnpm install -g react-native-clireact-native init ProjectNameInstallation of Dependency
To use sha256 we have to install react-native-sha256 dependency.
To install this open the terminal and jump into your project using
1 | cd ProjectName |
Run the following command
1 | npm install react-native-sha256 --save |
This command will copy all the dependencies into your node_module directory, You can find the directory in node_module the directory named react-native-sha256.
–save is optional, it is just to update the react-native-sha256 dependancy in your package.json file.
Linking of Dependencies
After installing the dependencies you need to link it with your project using
1 | react-native link |
After linking the dependency if you face Could not Compile Settings File project/android/settings.gradle error while building and installing the project then you can find the solution here.
Now Open App.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
App.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 | /*This is an Example to Generate SHA256 Encoded Hash in React Native*/ import React from 'react'; //import React in our project import { Text, View, StyleSheet, TextInput, TouchableOpacity, } from 'react-native'; //import all the components we needed import { sha256 } from 'react-native-sha256'; //import sha256 to use sha256() export default class App extends React.Component { constructor(props) { super(props); //initial value of Text this.state = { inputText: '', text: '', }; } convertSHA(){ //Encode SHA256 sha256(this.state.text).then(hash => { this.setState({ text:hash }) }); } render() { return ( <View style={styles.container}> <Text style={styles.textStyle}>{this.state.text}</Text> <Text>'Please insert any value to convert in SHA 256'</Text> <TextInput style={styles.inputStyle} onChangeText={inputText => this.setState({ inputText })} placeholder="Enter Any Value" value={this.state.inputText} /> <TouchableOpacity style={styles.button} title="Conver sh5" onPress={this.convertSHA.bind(this)}> <Text>Conver to SHA 256</Text> </TouchableOpacity> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ container: { flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center', paddingTop: 20, backgroundColor: 'white', }, textStyle: { padding: 10, textAlign: 'center', marginBottom: 30 }, inputStyle: { height: 40, width: 300, marginTop: 16, textAlign: 'center', borderColor: 'gray', backgroundColor: '#ecf0f1', borderWidth: 1, }, button: { alignItems: 'center', backgroundColor: '#DDDDDD', padding: 10, width: 300, marginTop: 16, }, }); |
To Run the React Native App
Open the terminal again and jump into your project using.cd ProjectNamereact-native run-androidreact-native run-ios (macOS only).Android
IOS
This is how you can Generate SHA256 Encoded Hash in React Native. If you have any doubt or you want to share something about the topic you can comment below or contact us here. There will be more posts coming soon. Stay tuned!
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