cometchat-native-core
Purpose
This is the foundational skill for every CometChat React Native UI Kit v5 integration. It teaches Claude HOW CometChat works on RN — initialization order, provider wrapper chain, login, env vars, auth tokens, and the anti-patterns that break real apps.
Read this skill first, before any framework (cometchat-native-expo-patterns / cometchat-native-bare-patterns) or placement skill.
Ground-truth sources: docs/ui-kit/react-native/overview.mdx, react-native-cli-integration.mdx, expo-integration.mdx, methods.mdx, and @cometchat/chat-uikit-react-native@5.3.3's src/index.ts.
1. The init-login-render order
CometChat has exactly one valid lifecycle on React Native:
CometChatUIKit.init(settings) → CometChatUIKit.login({ uid }) → render <CometChat*> components
Breaking this order produces a blank screen, a "CometChat is not initialized" runtime error, or a hung login. No exceptions.
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