How to trigger Button onPress programmatically?

[THOUSAND-SKY]

I have a button using onPress, and from non-react code I'd like to trigger the click, but el.click() (nor a ref.current.click() for that matter) doesn't actually trigger it. Is there a simple way of triggering a press event, like .click() would do for onClick?

[snowystinger]

Is this for a test? If so, I'd suggest looking at our tests.

If this is for an actual interaction, then I'd just call whatever function you're passing to onPress directly. No need to trigger events.

[THOUSAND-SKY]

I am trying to click in my browser, via a browser extension and user scripts.

[snowystinger]

I see, then you'd probably want to look at our tests for how to trigger them. Or look at userEvent's click implementation. Keep in mind, this probably won't result in a trusted user event though.

Depending on how closely tied your app and extension are though, you may find it easier to create direct API's for interfacing between the two.