React native run-android do not updating modified code

Question

I am using React native 0.52.0 and react-native-cli 2.0.1 on my Windows PC for android development. Despite all the changes i have made. When I run react-native run-an

Answer 1

This comment on github fixed my problem.

@neonsec Cool, it do works !

and I find a reason why this happened

https://github.com/facebook/watchman/blob/4b98623e8fde17588f27494f3ae8f084b9b227d3/QueryableView.cpp#L48

it looks like when a .git/index.lock or a .hg/wlock file exist, watchman will do nothing

Solution: DELETE .git/index.lock file

## root app dir
rm -f .git/index.lock

otherlink: https://github.com/facebook/watchman/blob/4b98623e8fde17588f27494f3ae8f084b9b227d3/QueryableView.cpp#L48