I am new to React Native and I am trying to set up my development environment on Windows 8.1 as described in the official documentation.
But I have a problem
Steps :
react-native init AwesomeProject
cd AwesomeProject
react-native start
The app doesn't start correctly and I have this error :
2020-05-26T18:02:48,578: [cli] unable to talk to your watchman on \\.\pipe\watchman-ME! (No such file or directory)
Watchman: watchman --no-pretty get-sockname returned with exit code=1, signal=null, stderr= 2020-05-26T18:02:48,578: [cli] unable to talk to your watchman on \\.\pipe\watchman-ME! (No such file or directory)
So I figured the problem is with watchman
I found the path on this error weird (\\.\pipe\watchman-ME!) because when executing react-native info, I get the following :
System:
OS: Windows 8.1 6.3.9600
CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4702MQ CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 4.36 GB / 7.93 GB
Binaries:
Node: 13.2.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
Yarn: 1.19.1 - C:\Program Files (x86)\Yarn\bin\yarn.CMD
npm: 6.13.1 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
Watchman: 20200424.164118.0 - C:\Users\ME\AppData\Local\watchman\watchman.EXE
SDKs:
Android SDK:
API Levels: 26, 27, 28, 29
Build Tools: 28.0.3, 29.0.2, 30.0.0
System Images: android-29 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom
Android NDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: Version 3.6.0.0 AI-192.7142.36.36.6392135
Languages:
Java: 1.8.0_241 - /c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_241/bin/javac
Python: 2.7.17 - /c/Python27/python
npmPackages:
@react-native-community/cli: Not Found
react: 16.11.0 => 16.11.0
react-native: 0.62.2 => 0.62.2
npmGlobalPackages:
*react-native*: Not Found
Is my configuration correct ? Because I read other posts, issues and the best recommendation was to reinstall watchman and reboot. I did it multiple times but no changes. If that matters I downloaded the latest CI build, extracted it and added it to the path as described in the docs.
But I keep getting the same error, I tried with existing and new projects as well.
EDIT :
When I start the app, I said it doesn't start correctly, what happens is that it actually opens a white screen with a green bar saying Loading from 10.0.2.2:8081 ..., I read about it (example) and I tried every proposed solution, everything seems all right but I keep getting the same error !