How to use JavaScript’s new data type BigInt?

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I would like to use the eudgc library to decode EU vaccination certificates with Expo. When using their few lines of sampe code in Expo Snack I get an error: Can’t find variable: BigInt.

During problem research I found that BigInt is a new data type and it is problematic in React Native:

You are importing a package somewhere that requires BigInt as a dependency. For the most part ReactNative uses JavaScriptCore which may not have the support of BigInt.

And core-js states (all the way at the bottom):

ES BigInt can’t be polyfilled since it requires changes in the behavior of operators, you could find more info here. You could try to use JSBI.

How can I use libraries in Expo that require new “official” data types like BigInt?

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