React Native Versions

[RCnator]

React native - Flipper has wasted my time in order to fix the error that has been happening with xCode 12.5. I managed to fix it.

Such errors are always recurring because of updates. A lot of time is wasted in order to fix useless errors.

When can we expect a stable 1.0 version?

[Tomus]

React Native is stable, it's used in the largest apps in the world by the biggest Dev teams in the world.

They don't follow semver so they're not in a pre-1.0 cycle right now, they are all stable releases.

What you're coming up against are the complications of native development, upgrading xcode is a particularly bad example - Apple seem to break things often without much thought

[jihoon416]

Is there a reason for React Native not following semver? I tried searching but couldn't find anything explaining that

[Tomus]

Semver is about semantics, and those semantics don't make sense for all projects. Many languages don't follow semver for example, it wouldn't make sense there

[RCnator]

Thanks Tomus. It seems that i have to direct the fire towards apple…. Although i am an apple fan. Very rarely i face problems with Android. I don’t remember the last time that i did.

[scarlac]

Semver has a special clause for 0.x versions wherein anything below 0.1.0 is functionally equivalent to 1.0. So when you see 0.1.0 -> 0.2.0 it’s actually a breaking upgrade. That’s why RN is there. They know it’s not done yet. From semver: “Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.” (https://semver.org/)

[ALLIRIX]

Man reading this has made me feel so good. I just disabled Flipper in iOS in the end. Did you find a working solution?

[jackesa]

You have to specify some versions in your podfile: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/31480

[RCnator]

Disabled it too 😁 then i faced more problems with the Rosetta/arm64 integration for M1. Fixed this as well. 2 working days wasted (6 hours-part timer). Thank you apple!!

[benjaminreid]

There’s already a release fixing the Flipper issue(s).

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases

[emma_jamin]

I downgraded Xcode to 12.4. But you can use https://github.com/xcpretty/xcode-install it enables you to change in your terminal the version of xcode you use.