Is it possible to combine React Native with socket.io

I was working on an app with Phonegap + React.js and Socket.io. However, then React-Native got released and the native feel is amazing.

I tried getting socket.io-client working with React Native, but unfortunately without much success. I did some research and I'm getting the exact same errors as described in this issue: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/375

The comments on the issue said to try and use the fetch API to fetch JS modules, but I think I'm doing this wrong:

var socketScript;    
fetch('https://cdn.socket.io/socket.io-1.2.0.js')
    .then(function(response) {
        socketScript = response._bodyText;
    }).done(function() {
        var socket = socketScript.io();
    });

This returns an undefined is not a function.

Is there any way to make socket.io-client work with React Native? Or am I looking at this the wrong way? Perhaps there are other, better suited solutions?