Load file from build assets using file system.

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I need to access the contents of an svg file as a string in order to parse selective data from it. react-native-svg does not fit my use-case because I am not trying to display the whole svg. What I’d like to do is get the file from my assets folder and then load it with the expo file system API.

I am, however, getting an error coming from the uri. When I get the URI using expo-asset like this

import { Asset } from 'expo-asset';
const uri = Asset.fromModule(require('./assets/sample.svg')).uri

it gives my uri as something like http://127.0.0.1/assets/sample.svg which, when I use it with

readAsStringAsync(uri).then(data => console.log(data))

I get the promise rejection with the error Unsupported URI scheme.

What is the correct way to do what I’m trying to do here?

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