Many npm modules are currently not compatible with React Native because they depend on node's core modules. A good example of such a module is through, which depends on the stream module, and has nearly 1500 modules that depend on it. Currently, if a module like through is depended on, you get a slightly opaque runtime error such as Requiring unknown module 'stream', with no further information.

Browserify uses various npm modules in place of node core modules. I guess Webpack must be doing something similar.

Ideally, I'd like to see:

• Packager resolving node modules with a list akin to Browserify's
• "unknown module" errors be promoted to compile-time, with helpful debugging information, possibly including the module hierarchy that led to the unknown module

What do you think?