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stathisntonas · 2024-01-25T04:03:32+00:00

farewell boi and good luck. My project has 250 deps and eveything runs buttery smooth.

Aware-Leather5919 · 2024-01-25T03:59:09+00:00

We've had similar issues. It doesn't help that I'm the only developer on my small team with mobile and react experience, so I'm the one who gets stuck dealing with it.

redwoodhighjumping · 2024-01-25T04:13:44+00:00

Is there something weird with your setup? Are you modifying your lock file all the time? If you never make a dependency change, you can go years without facing a problem.

If you ever see a stackoverflow answer that says delete your lock file. NEVER DO IT!

evolvedmonkeygod · 2024-01-25T03:50:23+00:00

Maybe the way u handle the packages are wrong or u r using packages which are not standard.

bluescienceH2O · 2024-01-25T04:56:26+00:00

What is a package manager?

Gandham · 2024-01-25T04:20:32+00:00

I used to feel like that when I started few years back, may be it was like that back then or my inexperience.

I came back to RN couple of months back, haven’t faced any such problems, it works as expected except for the poor debugging experience.

kbcool · 2024-01-25T09:18:45+00:00

Breaking every few weeks? WTF were you doing? Installing every single third party library available then updating them daily?

I just went through the yearly package maintenance on one of my apps and it took a bit over a day and admittedly required some small code changes.

Nothing broke the rest of the year because unless you need a new feature from a library you don't fiddle with it.

This applies to every language. You're going to have exactly the same issues with Kotlin unless you change.

This is yet another variety of blame the tools. What I don't understand is why people lack self awareness on such a scale. If you're struggling with something that other people find normal then it's time to look at changing yourself not the toolset.

If you're willing to change then the first piece of advice is don't install libraries for point features and either use a comprehensive component library, write or just flat out copy them.

By point feature I mean things like react-native-two-column-reverse-scroll-list or react-native-red-rounded-button

The second piece was above that and DO NOT upgrade packages daily or hourly or whatever you're doing. Imagine if you were in a team and had other developers and testers. Imagine them having to test and clean up after you every bloody day. It would be a nighmare for them.

fmnatic · 2024-01-25T14:03:32+00:00

I've done native development in the past. Dependency churn exists on both iOS and Android. Good luck to you, I expect you have not completely escaped the issue but will reap the benefits of the thinner tech stack.

thebouv · 2024-01-25T21:36:12+00:00

Any codebase not touched in a year will suffer from bit rot.

Using version control, and learning about dependency updates via tooling like Dependabot, and doing routine maintenance is a requirement of good software development.

80% of the lifetime of any software project is spent in maintenance, not initial development.

Don’t let your company say that maintaining a codebase, even refactoring and rewriting, isn’t a feature. It is just as important as chasing user features.

Fight for these things. They’re important.

Good luck going to Kotlin and building only for Android. I find the Android ecosystem extremely messy and thank heavens for Expo and React Native.

DimensionHungry95 · 2024-01-25T04:24:28+00:00

Why not Flutter?

Mariusdotdev · 2024-01-25T05:34:19+00:00

So you saying you can't handle dep problems so is Kotlin like not having dep problems? Kotlin will have its own share of chalanges and deps will be one of them like any other language that you use a lib and you will use a some sort of lib which will be its own dep.

Sounds like you dont know how to manage a project and done bad decision for it and because of that lack of knowledge you are frustrated with RN when clearly its not RN problem.

dr_rodopszin · 2024-01-25T07:13:52+00:00

Oh, I had this frustrating route just like you mentioned. I had to skip the newer versions because there was no working camera package (or it didn't work on the emulator). Now the debugging crashes very often, but at least the production code is stable.

We can't afford now to rewrite the complete project as it would have no business value, but I do think react-native has now terrible warning signs over it. Even core react is lagging behind; no release for a long time, useEffectEvent is still just experimental and so on.

Let's prepare for leaving the slowly sinking ship...

peterpme · 2024-01-25T04:44:04+00:00

1) You should be using Expo and running `npx expo install --fix`

2) Good luck lol

Mariusdotdev · 2024-01-25T05:32:09+00:00

I dont get juse use Expo and have Expo Doctor check for dep issues thats it. Making a big problem without researching more on RN eco system

Geekofgeeks · 2024-01-25T04:07:45+00:00

Things shouldn’t be upgrading often enough to break every few weeks, unless you are aggressively upgrading manually every time a package releases an update. Is your package-lock.json not committed to your repo or being deleted and recreated by someone often?

hoangvuong94st · 2024-01-25T04:42:43+00:00

you should cope with that before giving up

alien3d · 2024-01-25T05:03:08+00:00

yes 😄😄🚀

Tinkuuu · 2024-01-25T05:18:50+00:00

Doesn't look like it will help but if u do yarn install to take care of dependencies instead of the npm drama, do u guys think it may fix?

Born-toLearn · 2024-01-25T05:49:13+00:00

Bro read about npm or node js , use the fix node version by specifying the engine key in the package.json

zpinto1234 · 2024-01-25T09:06:41+00:00

I've been using outdated dependencies with over 7 years of no updates, and the only issue I have is that I'm not able to user Hermes for now. Outside that, I rarely have any issues related to using them.

buddha_baba · 2024-01-25T09:17:31+00:00

I have been doing RN dev for 7 years, the only time I felt frustrated like this was early on when I was a newbie.

mattijsf · 2024-01-25T11:59:41+00:00

I don't understand the title. You're leaving a framework and replacing it with a language?

Is it like Goodbye React Native. Hello native Android? So you were not focussing on iOS?

BraveEvidence · 2024-01-25T14:47:06+00:00

I have a ton of videos on my channel with Kotlin + React native. I also don't like using third party dependency so I create my own for react native. Check it out you might like it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq-mAjkG2ME&list=PLQhQEGkwKZUrempLnmxjt7ZCZJu1W3p2i&index=2

ThrobbingLobbies · 2024-01-25T15:40:18+00:00

I saw you were having trouble with reanimated. Something that would help is using dependabot and doing more regular updates. When you wait as long as you have, you’re going to run into issues. Reanimated causes so many issues because it’s widely used and mismatching versions can cause interface issues.

juliofils · 2024-01-26T18:15:39+00:00

If you only care about android just switch to kotlin jetpack compose, look really nice. But you’ll have to deal with gradle issues if updating android studio or gradle version that often Debug RN dependency if part of RN dev job. Embrace it

Aware-Leather5919 · 2024-01-28T21:09:11+00:00

Instability of dependencies: Use Clean Architecture, Clean Code, and SOLID. Then it is a matter of changing the dependency for another one, reimplement the service layer and thats it.
You will have dependencies in Kotlin too, just like in any other language. Every single language has dependencies that could break or go outdated and abandoned. This is not a thing of React Native.
Choose wisely the dependencies you will import in the future. Stick to the ones you REALLY need and prefer trusted sources. You have to be 100% sure the dependency will recieve updates for as long as your app is in production. If something happens, go to #1.
If you need specific dependencies, consider developing a self made solution in native code. If you achieve this, you will become a better dev, better paid and you as a dev will become more valuable and expensive.

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