"Could not determine react-native-codegen location" after upgrading to 0.65

[canpoyrazoglu]

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Description

After an upgrade from 0.64.x to 0.65 I get:

Error: Could not determine react-native-codegen location. Try running 'yarn install' or 'npm install' in your project root.
Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code.

I confirm this is the case after a complete purge of node_modules, yarn.lock, Pods, Podfile.lock, Xcode build folder, and a fresh install/build too.

React Native version:

System:
OS: macOS 11.3.1
CPU: (16) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9980HK CPU @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 27.26 GB / 64.00 GB
Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node: 14.17.2 - /usr/local/bin/node
Yarn: 1.22.5 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
npm: 6.14.13 - /usr/local/bin/npm
Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
Managers:
CocoaPods: 1.10.1 - /usr/local/bin/pod
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms: iOS 14.5, DriverKit 20.4, macOS 11.3, tvOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4
Android SDK:
Android NDK: 17.2.4988734
IDEs:
Android Studio: 4.1 AI-201.8743.12.41.6858069
Xcode: 12.5/12E262 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
Java: 10.0.2 - /usr/bin/javac
npmPackages:
@react-native-community/cli: Not Found
react: ^17.0.2 => 17.0.2
react-native: ^0.65.0 => 0.65.0
react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
react-native: Not Found

Steps To Reproduce

Provide a detailed list of steps that reproduce the issue.

1. Have React Native 0.64.x project.
2. Upgrade your dependencies to 0.65.
3. Install/update via yarn and CocoaPods.
4. Try to build.

Expected Results

Project should build normally.

[canpoyrazoglu]

I've found out installing react-native-codegen as a dev dependency fixes the issue:

yarn add --dev react-native-codegen

But again, I think it should be subdependency of React Native and be installed by that instead of needing a manual install.

[lukebars]

@canpoyrazoglu it's mentioned inside the release notes that you should add react-native-codegen

[exneval]

the changelog said react-native-codegen version 0.0.7 is now needed as a devDependency in the package.json.
and also in upgrade helper the patch put codegen in dev dependencies,
you sure this is not a setup issue?

[canpoyrazoglu]

I've missed that part. But wouldn't it be much nicer and dev-friendly if it was added automatically? Requiring an extra dependency to be explicitly added isn't the best DX.

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[exneval]

it shouldn't be problem with clean RN 0.65,
but for upgrading, we need to patch it manually, because 0.64.2 template doesn't have the codegen installed before

[canpoyrazoglu]

@exneval okay then I've thought it was required for everyone including clean install. My bad.

[liuhy412484577]

@exneval okay then I've thought it was required for everyone including clean install. My bad.

I also encountered this problem, may I ask your solution is？

[exneval]

@liuhy412484577 if you are updating to 0.65.x please also install react-native-codegen as dev dependency

[liuhy412484577]

dev depende
Thank you for your reply！ YES , updating to 0.65.x ,
is add react-native-codegen in devDependencies for root directory package.json ？

[canpoyrazoglu]

yarn add react-native-codegen -D

[buschco]

If your react-native app lives inside a monorepo, you might want to nohoist it:

// root package.json

  "workspaces": {
    "packages": [
      "packages/*"
    ],
    "nohoist": [
      "**/react-native",
      "**/react-native/**",
      // other rn deps
      "**/react-native-codegen"
    ]
  },

[nica0012]

I've been trying to build my project for just about a week now. I've upgraded to 0.65 and after installing react-native-codegen I am getting this error now:

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cp: /tmp/react-native-codegen-ACuCqgfd/out/FBReactNativeSpec.h: No such file or directory
cp: /tmp/react-native-codegen-ACuCqgfd/out/FBReactNativeSpec-generated.mm: No such file or directory
Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code

I'm stumped on this, out of my 5 years using react native this has been my biggest headache.

[milobob]

I've been trying to build my project for just about a week now. I've upgraded to 0.65 and after installing react-native-codegen I am getting this error now:

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cp: /tmp/react-native-codegen-ACuCqgfd/out/FBReactNativeSpec.h: No such file or directory
cp: /tmp/react-native-codegen-ACuCqgfd/out/FBReactNativeSpec-generated.mm: No such file or directory
Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code

I'm stumped on this, out of my 5 years using react native this has been my biggest headache.

I have the exact same issue... it's a very mysterious one, which came after I installed eslint for the Atom IDE. So I had to install some npm packages, and in the process uninstalled react-native-codegen. After re-installing react-native-codegen it's all messed up. I worry I might have overwritten some XCode IDE setting. I have tried removing node modules, pods, reinstalling the project, etc, etc. I'm thinking re-installing Xcode to try to fix it (last resort) is getting closer now that nothing seems to be working to solve the problem.

Did you solve the issue?

[milobob]

OMG. Ok it was react-native-codegen. I was using version 0.0.7 and when I upgraded to a newer one, it caused the error. I installed old version using 'npm install react-native-codegen@0.0.7 -save-dev' and that fixed the problem. Hopefully you don't lose another 5 years on this issue!!