create-react-native-app: Expo app - can't load project with message : This is taking much longer than it should...
I have
- installed Node 8.11.0 on Windows 8
- installed
npm install -g create-react-native-app - created successfully a test project
create-react-native-app AwesomeProject
cd AwesomeProject
npm start
- installed expo client app on my iphone 5s, iOS 9.2
- sent the app url using email to my phone
I
- connect my iphone on the same network of my windows machine (wifi)
- click on the link contained in the email message
- accept to open the link in the Expo app
- the Expo app tries to launch the procjet but gets stuck givin this message
This is taking much longer than it should. You might want to check your interenet connection
- Expo app crashes It seems like the project is too heavy to be loeaded in the app, due to the list of node_modules installed.
How can i solve this problem? I am stuck in development.
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- State: closed
- Created 6 years ago
- Reactions: 1
- Comments: 16 (3 by maintainers)
I just started using expo-cli so here is what I found out.
Windows:
Hope it helps!
@Azambadar I faced the same problem. Turns out I was creating a “LAN” connection on the desktop expo server. Switching to “Tunnel” solved it for me
you need to be on the same wifi network and that wifi network cannot be a public network (eg: restaurant, cafe, school) that is behind a NAT. if this is the case then you will have to use a simulator
@brentvatne i tried to open the url on safari (eliminating the prefix exp://) : the browser gets no response back (message : “safari cannot open the page cause the server stopped answering”) Do you think is there any firewall setting on the house router, blocking that port?
thanks a lot in advance
I tried to use the iphone as hotspot, connecting my windows pc to it, but i got the same problem.
edit looks like it’s the firewall installed on the machine, in my case ZoneAlarm. I have disabled it and now i do not receive that error message. Still i cannot see my project but this is may due to other problems. As soon as i will have the enviroment working, i will post here the steps i did to get the result. Thanks
copy the url to your phone and open it in safari or chrome, let me know what you see
i am on the same wifi network, and it is not a public one. it is my private house wifi
I m having the same problem, turned off firewall and done all troubleshotting but still project is not opening in expo app