I'm just starting out with react native. Everything was going ok but now when I run 'react-native run-ios' the packager is looking for js files in
<project-root>/node_modules/react-native/packager
instead of
<project-root>
If I run 'node node_modules/react-native/local-cli/cli.js start'
it looks for files in the correct location.
This is happening in my existing project and if I create a new project using react native init. It started after I installed a new npm module. I've since reverted the change, re-installed modules, cleared the tmpdir cache, rebooted computer etc. Can I explicitly configure the packager entry point?
Any help greatly appreciated
C
This is a known issue with RN 0.45, I have also encountered this problem today after upgrading from 0.42.
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/14246
The temporary solution until RN is fixed (next release?) is to run:
npm start -- -reset-cache
You can also try:
npm run start -- --root <mydir>
This will cause the packager to look in the correct location.
Until this is corrected it's a pain, as it means we have to invoke the reset every time the packager is started either from XCode or react-native run-ios.
The next release is later this month: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.46.0-rc.0
Update
This has now been fixed in release 0.45.1
What worked for me was reverting to 0.43.1 (a version that I have other apps working with): delete node_modules, change package.json under dependencies to "react-native": "0.43.1", and npm install. Verify your version with react-native --version, and run again.
