run-ios doesn't work with default test app from `init-test-app`

[Saadnajmi]

Description

I tried using yarn init-test-app to make a new RNTA-based test app for the community module react-native-menu. The test app will run fine from Xcode. Attempting yarn ios gives me the following error:

saads-macbook-pro:example sanajmi$ yarn ios
yarn run v1.22.10
$ react-native run-ios
error ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/sanajmi/workspace/menu/example/ios/ReactTestApp-Dummy.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj'.
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/sanajmi/workspace/menu/example/ios/ReactTestApp-Dummy.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj'
 at Object.openSync (node:fs:582:3)
 at Object.readFileSync (node:fs:450:35)
 at pbxProject.parseSync (/Users/sanajmi/workspace/menu/example/node_modules/xcode/lib/pbxProject.js:61:28)
 at isInstalled (/Users/sanajmi/workspace/menu/example/node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-ios/build/link/isInstalled.js:43:67)
 at Object.isInstalled (/Users/sanajmi/workspace/menu/example/node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-ios/build/link/common/isInstalled.js:23:35)
 at warnAboutManuallyLinkedLibs (/Users/sanajmi/workspace/menu/example/node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-ios/build/link/warnAboutManuallyLinkedLibs.js:43:28)
 at Object.runIOS [as func] (/Users/sanajmi/workspace/menu/example/node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-ios/build/commands/runIOS/index.js:104:44)
 at Command.handleAction (/Users/sanajmi/workspace/menu/example/node_modules/@react-native-community/cli/build/index.js:186:23)
 at Command.listener (/Users/sanajmi/workspace/menu/example/node_modules/commander/index.js:315:8)
 at Command.emit (node:events:394:28)
info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
saads-macbook-pro:example sanajmi$ 

Looking at react-native.config.js, I did see this:

 ios: {
 project: "ios/ReactTestApp-Dummy.xcodeproj",
 },

I tried changing the project path to iOS/MenuExample.xcworkspace and to ../node_modules/.generated/iOS/ReactTestApp.xcodeproj but neither worked.

Your environment

• react-native-test-app version: 0.6.3
• Tested platforms:
  • Android
  • iOS
  • macOS
  • Windows
• System information:

  System:
   OS: macOS 11.4
   CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
   Memory: 921.95 MB / 16.00 GB
   Shell: 3.2.57 - /bin/bash
  Binaries:
   Node: 16.4.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
   Yarn: 1.22.10 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
   npm: 7.18.1 - /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:
   API Levels: 28, 29, 30
   Build Tools: 28.0.3, 29.0.3, 30.0.1
   System Images: android-30 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom
   Android NDK: Not Found
  IDEs:
   Android Studio: 4.1.2 4.1.2
   Xcode: 12.5.1/12E507 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
  Languages:
   Java: 11.0.1 - /usr/bin/javac
  npmPackages:
   @react-native-community/cli: Not Found
   react: 17.0.1 => 17.0.1 
   react-native: 0.64.1 => 0.64.1 
   react-native-macos: ^0.63.0 => 0.63.36 
  npmGlobalPackages:
   *react-native*: Not Found
  

Steps to reproduce

git clone git@github.com:react-native-menu/menu.git
cd menu
mv example/ example2/ # This is to just move the existing test app out of the way temporarily
yarn add react-native-test-app --dev
yarn init-test-app
# The options I chose
# ✔ What is the name of your test app? … MenuExample
# ✔ Which platforms do you need test apps for? › Android, iOS
# ✔ Where should we create the new project? … example
yarn
yarn build:ios
pod install --project-directory=iOS
yarn iOS

[tido64]

Looks like this broke starting with v5.0.0-alpha.0 (react-native-community/cli#1270). A try-catch was removed from packages/platform-ios/src/link/warnAboutManuallyLinkedLibs.ts, causing the exception to bubble up and crash. Not exactly sure why it was removed in the first place since they were addressing an Android issue. Can you try opening an issue on their side?

[tido64]

I think this goes back to the feature request I filed last year: react-native-community/cli#1054

[Saadnajmi]

Looks like this broke starting with v5.0.0-alpha.0 (react-native-community/cli#1270). A try-catch was removed from packages/platform-ios/src/link/warnAboutManuallyLinkedLibs.ts, causing the exception to bubble up and crash. Not exactly sure why it was removed in the first place since they were addressing an Android issue. Can you try opening an issue on their side?

I take it that not using the cli-alpha will probably solve the error as well? It's probably an improvement to the community module if I specify it to use cli version ^4.10 anyway

[tido64]

This should now be fixed in @react-native-community/cli-platform-ios@5.0.2.