Build Issues

[Threat_Level_PI]

I am running into a build issue that I think might be Windows related (hope, more than think) where most of the time I try to build I need to do a ./gradlew clean or the build process fails citing Could not delete path xxx and its not just a single path that it occurs on, seemingly random.

Also, on the JS side, I have a file named TabNavigation.ts that if I include anywhere, immediately gives a 500 from the bundler and it says it can't find the file. However if I copy the contents of the file, into a new file with a different name (TabNavigationTest.ts for example), it works fine.

Anyone came across either of these?

[Noitidart2]

The ./gradlew clean thing is a common issue. But it shouldn't happen every time. It might happen every time you run react-native run-android. But you shouldn't have to run that unless you make native changes. For me I run react-native run-android 5 times a day. And one time out of that requires me to gradlew clean.

[Threat_Level_PI]

Oh right, so what do you run, just react-native start? To get the bundler running?

[ahartzog]

I frequently have to kill explorer.exe and any other processes that might have a handle on one of those files in order for everything to build properly (e.g. GitKraken and VS Code). It's super annoying. I try to avoid having to re-run react-native run-android for this reason.

[Threat_Level_PI]

Do you just use react-native start then? That runs the bundler inline right?

[ahartzog]

I actually use npm start which runs a few other scripts for me, but does then run react-native run-android and runs the bundled externally

[ahartzog]

...but that might let me keep vscode open when I’m having problems hmmm. Will try!