Add support for Platform.OS

[okwasniewski]

Description

The goal of this issue is to add support for Platform.OS = 'visionos'.

The work might require writing a custom metro resolver.

[thymikee]

Update from my work in this area:
Managed to add support for visionos as a new platform (similar to macos). It revealed that we either need to convert/bridge existing .ios.js files to visionos.js or add a fallback platform. Tried the fallback platform solution by customizing reactNativePlatformResolver:

react-native-visionos/packages/community-cli-plugin/src/utils/metroPlatformResolver.js

Lines 28 to 44 in ca6ac0a

	export function reactNativePlatformResolver(platformImplementations: {
	[platform: string]: string,
	}): CustomResolver {
	return (context, moduleName, platform) => {
	let modifiedModuleName = moduleName;
	if (platform != null && platformImplementations[platform]) {
	if (moduleName === 'react-native') {
	modifiedModuleName = platformImplementations[platform];
	} else if (moduleName.startsWith('react-native/')) {
	modifiedModuleName = `${
	platformImplementations[platform]
	}/${modifiedModuleName.slice('react-native/'.length)}`;
	}
	}
	return context.resolveRequest(context, modifiedModuleName, platform);
	};
	}

to accept

platformImplementations: {
  [platform: string]: [string, string | undefined],
}

as an argument, where the tuple would read as [platform = "visionos", basePlatform = "ios"]. This way I tricked Metro into resolving ios extensions as fallbacks, however this revealed another issue with Platform.OS being visionos, while internally we have lots of Platform.OS === "ios" calls. Which we would either need to augment with visionos checks (as tried here by @okwasniewski: e5b83e0) or entirely replace. Which adds maintenance overhead for an out-of-tree platform like this. Even then, for React Native VisionOS, which largely shares the same code with React Native iOS, it would mean we wouldn't be able to use most of the community iOS native packages, unless contributing extra platform checks. That's not scalable.

As a potential followup, I'm going to explore extending Platform primitive with a new "variant" concept. Variant would serve as an extension for the base platform. visionos would be variant of ios. tvos would be variant of ios. Maybe even macos could be variant of ios, but that's debatable. Adding variant support would likely mean either hacking around Platform concept between Metro and RN for iOS. Or extending Metro with this concept.

[okwasniewski]

This feature won't be supported out of the box. There is metro-resolver-platform-variants package created by @douglowder that allows to achieve this.