Can Uberproto be removed in Crow v4 to support Hermes?

[jamesholcomb]

I would like to enable Hermes in react native apps using the v4 Crow client. This was reported in #2076.

Uberproto was removed in v5 Dove with this PR #2178

Is backporting the PR to v4 feasible @daffl? Or do the existing dependencies make this unworkable?

I do plan on eventually migrating client and server to v5, but this would be a nice stopgap.

[daffl]

Unfortunately not since it is technically a breaking change (documented here).

[jamesholcomb]

I see...I suppose I could migrate client apps to v5 (staying at [email protected]) for now. I did some prelim testing and it seems to be compatible with the v4.5 server.

[daffl]

That is definitely an option. None of the communication APIs changed as long as you are using the same socket.io-client version as on the server.