bartvanandel

Introduction

We were facing an issue where we need a font to be present at build time for a React Native app. This font is essentially a binary dependency of our app, which we'd rather not add to our git repo (in general, this is not the best practice). There exist packages that can provide certain fonts, however these were either too unorganized for our taste, or didn't work with React-Native / Expo. So, we searched for a solution to just download the fonts at npm install time.

Solution

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const fs = require("fs");

/**
 * Removes matching outer quotes from a string.
 *
 * @param {string} text - String to unquote
 * @returns {string} - Unquoted string
 */
const unquote = text => /(["'])?(.*)\1/.exec(text)[2];