I'm attempting to build a coworker's code, which involves building with react-native-svg. Upon build, I get this error:
Task :react-native-svg:compileDebugJavaWithJavac FAILED
After narrowing it down, I discovered that this build failure only happens when I try and use version 13.0.0 and up of react-native-svg. For reference, I'm using React native version 0.64.4. This should be ok according to the version reference on their website:
version chart
I need version 13 at least, otherwise it's too laggy to properly test the code. What is odd to me is that my coworker is able to build just fine on the same codebase, but maybe that's a difference in operating systems (He is on Mac, I'm on Windows). Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!
from what I've read on the official github page https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-svg, version 13.0.0 and above requires react native version >=0.69.0 due to support of fabric, any versions below it will break
svg version 13.0.0
I was in the same situation as you just now and had to opt for installing version 12.5.0 instead.
I've had an app running on Expo SDK 41 and it had some basic usage of react-native-reanimated#~2.1.0 and debugging worked just fine.
At some stage SDK 41 was deprecated and I was forced to upgrade, so I went for the latest one which is 45.
After the upgrade I can no longer use remote debugging. When I turn on remote debugging, the app crashes with the following error
Requiring module "node_modules\react-native-reanimated\src\Animated.js", which threw an exception: Invariant Violation: Calling synchronous methods on native modules is not supported in Chrome.
Consider providing alternative methods to expose this method in debug mode, e.g. by exposing constants ahead-of-time.
and I can't do anything (I can't even turn off remote debugging without clearing expo app data).
The issue seems to be related to react-native-reanimated (current version is 2.8.0)
Expo docs state this:
The new APIs in react-native-reanimated#2 use React Native APIs that
are incompatible with Remote JS Debugging. Consequently, you can only
debug apps using these APIs using Flipper, which is not yet available
in the Expo managed workflow. You will be unable to use Remote JS
Debugging if you use the new APIs from Reanimated 2. Remote JS
Debugging will continue to work if you only use the APIs that were
also available in Reanimated 1.
Tried to downgrade to react-native-reanimated#~2.1.0 did not work either.
I must be missing something, because otherwise it seems a bit ridiculous that I'm forced to upgrade SDK which in combination with react-native-reanimated does not allow me to do debug anymore.
Please advise if there is anything I can do.
Thanks
This is what that link to Expo's docs show me at this time:
Reanimated uses React Native APIs that are incompatible with "Remote JS
Debugging" for JavaScriptCore. In order to use a debugger with your app with
react-native-reanimated, you will need to use the Hermes JavaScript engine and > the JavaScript Inspector for Hermes.
Anyways, this appears to be an issue Reanimated themselves talk about in the docs
The workaround around this for some time has been this code shared in this answer here
It isn't even a reanimated problem particularly, but an inability of RN to develop using some synchronous features that pertain to debugging.
Anyways, hope this helps you
After posting a question on expo repository, I've got the following answer which actually does not solve the remote debugger issue, but gives the same alternative. Basically they suggested to use hermes engine
hi there! this is unfortunate and inconvenient for sure. it's a side effect of the direction the ecosystem is moving in - away from JavaScript Core and remote debugging in Chrome towards Hermes and attaching a debugger to the on-device Hermes engine. Reanimated no longer supports remote debugging in Chrome.
in order to debug JS using Reanimated in SDK 45+ we recommend using Hermes. you can set this up in your app.json as follows:
{
"expo": {
"// your other config here": "...",
"android": {
"jsEngine": "hermes"
}
}
}
now when you run expo start and launch your app press j and it will launch a Chrome Inspector that will attach directly to the app on your device (I suggest upgrading expo-cli to the latest to ensure you have this feature). be sure to refer to the "Using Hermes Engine" guide for more information
I have an application which runs on react-native 0.49.3
I want to upgrade to the latest version which is v0.57.4.
Should I incrementally update it? For example 0.49 -> 0.50 -> 0.51 etc
Or I can just update it to to the latest version?
Do you suggest using react-native-git-upgrade or rn-diff?
My advice is to upgrade to the latest version. There will be enough dependency issues anyway so you're best dealing with them only once.
From the React Native upgrade page
(https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/upgrading)
you can run:
npm install -g react-native-git-upgrade
npm install -g #react-native-community/cli
react-native-git-upgrade
UPDATE 2:
The new command is
npx react-native upgrade
but I believe this is best for upgrading from more recent versions. If you have older versions, the following upgrade process still applies.
UPDATE:
I've never had a problem before with upgrades, but recently joined a project where we upgraded from an old copy of React Native 0.44.3 to a newer version (first to 0.57.8, then to 0.55.4, then to 0.58.3 while struggling with stability) and discovered that it's not always as easy as running those commands. Be warned that this could be a long, tedious process, especially if you have not upgraded regularly and have a long gap between upgrades. In this case, it was 18 months since they had upgraded.
First, there have been changes to the upgrade process itself (react-native upgrade, to now react-native-git-upgrade) itself. So, if you're using a version that's a year old or more there could be some manual discrepancies that you'll have to go through. Some are spelled out after running the react-native-git-upgrade command, and some are not. I was amazed at the number of people on Stack Overflow going through the same undocumented circular issues of a seemingly innocent upgrade. I was not expecting that. I'd be OK with Facebook not adding any features for 6 months and simplifying the upgrade process before moving on.
Second, make sure your version of React Native uses the right dependencies. Later versions of the upgrade tool (react-native-git-upgrade) try to account for this, but double check at https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-releases/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md to see if the version of RN that you're upgrading to requires a specific dependency. Some do while others do not.
Next, library hades is real, depending on how big your project is. In our case, several modules in use in our 0.44.3 version have now been deprecated or no longer maintained or even work differently with the later versions of RN. I didn't consider this enough when starting this process. This caused several instances of code rewrite just to upgrade!! Yikes!
Also, just as some versions of React Native require specific versions of dependencies, other modules require specific versions of some dependencies. Worse, sometimes these are incompatible and conflicting versions, of various libraries. Save some time and write a user story or two to account for this. Go through every module you're using and see if there are any compatibility statements on their GitHub page. Some Readme files will tell you to use certain versions of their module with certain versions of React Native. Others won't and you may find out later there are requirements. But even going through this process and anticipating issues, you'll thank yourself later.
Once you're up to date and stable, consider upgrading regularly to minimize the upgrade nightmare that I just went through.
You will need #react-native-community/cli to upgrade to the latest version of react-native, sadly not mentioned anywhere.
npm install -g #react-native-community/cli
Install react-native-git-upgrade
npm install -g react-native-git-upgrade
Now go to your project.
cd your-react-native-project
Now you can run the upgrade command.
react-native upgrade
Just change the path to the project for which you want to upgrade the react native version and then run this command:
react-native upgrade
and after running this command you will see some questions. Type n to discard the change to that file or type y if you want to modify that file.
It will automatically install the latest version of react-native for your project.
More info at:
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/upgrading
OR
You can upgrade react native version by this simple step:
1- Just go to package.json file of your project
2- After that, look for these lines
"dependencies": {
"react-native": "0.57.8",
}
3- Change the react-native version to any version that you want to upgrade to in "dependencies".
4- After this run npm install and react native version will be upgraded for your project.
I would recommend using this tool (upgrade helper) which allows you to compare your current react native version and latest react native version.
Also, It's good to upgrade react-native frequently to stay up to date with the latest version and make the upgrade process easy.
https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/
I recommend visiting this page: https://github.com/react-native-community/rn-diff-purge
because you can see the list of exactly what changes in each version. I find it's simpler to manually change config settings after starting from your version that is proven to work properly via react-native run-android and react-native run-ios.
It sounds like a horrible task, but it's not very difficult for your fingers or brain to remove red lines and add green lines--at least compared to alternatives such as Googling to sort out horrific error messages in the Android/iOS build systems.
I also believe that it's a good idea to manually change config settings for example going from 0.44 to 0.59 because you get more of an opportunity to see exactly what is changing in each version. You'll see the changes are reasonable and generally have bearing on fostering future automation and increasing the build systems' robustness and aversion to breakage.
Additionally, changes were implemented in RN 0.59 that makes react-native upgrade better, and in addition to my additional statement, the whole 0.59 release is pretty massive and important for future: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/#upgrading-to-059
I'm not even going to talk about react-native upgrade or react-native-git-upgrade because I find those to be generally a source of nightmares especially if you get into react-native unlink and react-native link.
You can update to the latest version directly, I'd recommend to do it with react-native-git-upgrade, but do be careful to read the update release notes on the versions up to yours, they have some notes about things you should do manually that the upgrade will not. You can find the notes here: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases
The notes are usually on top in the changelogs, I know the latest releases had some of those and gave me some work to update from 0.54 recently so be aware.
In case there are changes then you can either update them manually by copying and pasting from the changes in the page or you can do it with the React Native CLI upgrade command by running:
npx react-native upgrade
As explained in the docs: https://reactnative.dev/docs/upgrading
react-native upgrade
npm i react-native#{{VERSION}}
npm i react#{{VERSION}}
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/upgrading
https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/?from=0.59.9&to=0.61.0
Even with using the new upgrade helper https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/ I still run into a bunch of issues and it takes forever to debug them. The best and most reliable way I have found to upgrade after react-native core teams make big changes like adding fast-refresh or flipper that involves a lot of xcode related changes it just start from scratch.
create new repo
npx react-native init newProject
STEP 1 -
make sure the new app runs properly so you know if you have an xcode/react native package issues that need to be upgraded. I know I ran into an xcode issue that forced me to upgrade to a new mac os version.
STEP 2 - pull up old projects xcworkspace or xcodeproj if you are not using any custom pods and just copy over the important stuff like the signing stuff and potentially any custom build scripts you have. I have custom fonts so I pull that over
STEP 3 - copy over app specific code, think app folder or src and any files that live in the root of your project.
STEP 4 - Run npm install and pod install if you have custom pods
STEP 5 - Important not to just paste over the App.js/tsx file but instead just render a simple view with text in it. If your app will run here then it means all your npm/pods are configured properly. Usually I run into a bunch of error in this step which require me to upgrade npm/pods to new version to deal with breaking changes in react-native
STEP 5.a - One by one add in each line from your original App.js/tsx file and testing if anything breaks. Sometimes its useful to reset your metro cache in between changes and removing the build folders inside of ios and android during debugging. Also its very helpful to use the chrome debugger stop on exception functionality here so you know where the issues are coming from
STEP 6 - copy over .git folder from previous project that lives in the root of your project so you can keep your version history or just create a new git repo if you dont care about this.
I have upgraded RN to newer versions in a couple of hours using this method multiple times. I typically write myself some notes while I do it to speed to up the process next time I need to upgrade. Good Luck!
npx react-native upgrade
Should do all the work for you.
use cammand npx react-native upgrade
if you are facing errors it's due to some deprecated packages.So comment all pages and in route and step by step add your pages and replace your deprecated packages with new .
And also use this update helper 'https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/'
You can Upgrade with 4 simple step
npm install -g #react-native-community/CLI
npm install -g react-native-git-upgrade
cd your-react-native-project
react-native upgrade
Thanks :)
I've created a few react-native projects, and since updating to Sierra OSX and Xcode 8, upon opening each project, I get the error:
Application AppName has not been registered. This is either to due to a require() error during initialisation or a failure to call AppRegistry.registerComponent.
I've gone back to basics, uninstalled and reinstalled node, reinstalled latest react-native, created a fresh init, and still get the error. I've looked up and removed the custom-compiler-flags, as suggested here.
This is a real problem, if anyone has any insights I would be very appreciative!
I was having this error last night! All I did was to remove the node_modules, install then again and run the app again, it worked. – Crysfel
I upgraded to react-native 0.16.0-rc, ran npm install, then ran react-native upgrade. When trying to launch the iOS app in a simulator (or device, doesn't matter) I get the error:
[error][tid:com.facebook.React.RCTExceptionsManagerQueue] Unhandled JS Exception: babelHelpers.interopRequireDefault is not a function. (In 'babelHelpers.interopRequireDefault(_reactNative)', 'babelHelpers.interopRequireDefault' is undefined)
I've just about run out of ideas here. Is there something I need to add to my xcode project maybe? Merging the latest react-native templates into mine was a nightmare so maybe something got messed up there.
This problem is discussed in this Github issue and fixed by this commit. You can apply this patch temporarily until it is merged into the project with the version 0.16.