cannot be added because it does not exist or is unsupported

[jparismorgan]

[email protected] cannot be added because it does not exist or is unsupported

[tido64]

Sorry for closing this issue too early.

You're right in that we should probably not pick 0.72 if it's unavailable. If you don't provide --version, we currently look at the react-native version that is being used in the monorepo, and if that doesn't exist, use the latest version of react-native to determine what's currently available. This does assume that if a minor version is available for react-native, it's available for all other platforms as well. It's a bit simplified, and it obviously fails in this scenario. As a quick workaround, you can explicitly specify --version to get around this.

To fully address this, I think we need to add logic to determine the greatest common version, and make sure the user understands that we may not be able to use the latest version.

[tido64]

Hi @jparismorgan, the latest version of react-native-macos is currently 0.71.29. The 0.72 series has not been released yet. For available versions, see: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-macos?activeTab=versions

[jparismorgan]

Isn't this a bug in react-native-test-app ^2.5.14 then? I didn't specify which version of react-native-macos to use, I just wanted to initialize a project. Shouldn't react-native-test-app just pick a valid version for me to use?

As a side note, I switched to ^2.5.9 and was able to create the project. But I'm still not able to build - it seems that the macos/ folder is missing and the podfile has an error:

~/repo/foo/apps/app$ pnpm i                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Scope: all 10 workspace projects
../osx                                   |  WARN  deprecated [email protected]
../osx                                   |  WARN  deprecated [email protected]
../osx                                   |  WARN  deprecated [email protected]
../osx                                   |  WARN  deprecated [email protected]
../osx                                   |  WARN  deprecated [email protected]
../..                                    |   +1   -1 +-
../..                                    | Progress: resolved 1459, reused 1384, downloaded 0, added 0, done

dependencies:
+ react 18.2.0
+ react-native 0.71.12 (0.72.3 is available)
+ react-native-macos 0.71.26 (0.71.29 is available)

devDependencies:
+ @babel/core 7.22.9
+ @babel/preset-env 7.22.9
+ @babel/runtime 7.22.6
+ @react-native-community/eslint-config 3.2.0
+ @tsconfig/react-native 2.0.2 (3.0.2 is available)
+ @types/jest 29.2.1 (29.5.3 is available)
+ @types/react 18.2.18
+ @types/react-test-renderer 18.0.0
+ babel-jest 29.2.1 (29.6.2 is available)
+ eslint 8.46.0
+ jest 29.2.1 (29.6.2 is available)
+ metro-react-native-babel-preset 0.73.10 (0.77.0 is available)
+ prettier 2.4.1 (3.0.1 is available)
+ react-test-renderer 18.2.0
+ typescript 4.8.4 (5.1.6 is available)

Done in 5.9s
~/repo/foo/apps/app$ pnpm run macos                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

> [email protected] macos /Users/parismorgan/repo/foo/apps/app
> react-native run-macos --scheme Foo

error macOS project folder not found. Are you sure this is a React Native project?.
info Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.
~/repo/foo/apps/app$ ls                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
App.tsx                Podfile                app.json               babel.config.js        index.js               metro.config.js        node_modules           package.json           react-native.config.js
~/repo/foo/apps/app$ pod install                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

[!] Invalid `Podfile` file: Cannot find module '@react-native-community/cli-platform-ios'.

 #  from /Users/parismorgan/repo/foo/apps/app/Podfile:5
 #  -------------------------------------------
 #  
 >  use_test_app!
 #  -------------------------------------------