React-native open file from path

Usage

The most convenient way : Use react-native-document-picker, on selection it will give you a Relative path, something like this content://com.android…… . Pass that Relative path to Stat(filepath) function of the react-native-fetch-blob library. The object will return absolute path.

You’re not able to use node’s fs because it is part of nodejs environment . As you surely know your application code is not running on nodejs but rather directly on your smartphone (besides debug mode but even there you cannot use node’s fs package).