React native is stuck at old version app

Question

When I run react-native run-android it only installs the old version of the app in simulator and changes are not shown.

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Answer 1

Have you tried react-native start --reset-cache ?

Or maybe you can try to reset the MAX_WAIT_TIME (I found it here). in file \node_modules\node-haste\lib\FileWatcher\index.js you should increase MAX_WAIT_TIME variable (example : 360000) and change function _createWatcher.

From:

key: '_createWatcher',
value: function _createWatcher(rootConfig) {
  var watcher = new WatcherClass(rootConfig.dir, {
    glob: rootConfig.globs,
    dot: false
  });
  return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
    var rejectTimeout = setTimeout(function () {
      return reject(new Error(timeoutMessage(WatcherClass)));
    }, MAX_WAIT_TIME);
    watcher.once('ready', function () {
      clearTimeout(rejectTimeout);
      resolve(watcher);
    });
  });
}

To:

key: '_createWatcher',
value: function _createWatcher(rootConfig) {
  var watcher = new WatcherClass(rootConfig.dir, {
    glob: rootConfig.globs,
    dot: false
  });

  return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {

    const rejectTimeout = setTimeout(function() {
      reject(new Error([
        'Watcher took too long to load',
        'Try running `watchman version` from your terminal',
        'https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/troubleshooting.html',
      ].join('\n')));
    }, MAX_WAIT_TIME);

    watcher.once('ready', function () {
      clearTimeout(rejectTimeout);
      resolve(watcher);
    });
  });
}

May it help you! :D