react-native: babelHelpers.objectDestructuringEmpty is not a function

Finally managed to get past this error. It turns out that I had code like this that needed to be removed:

var {
} = React;

I found this issue when having braces in place for destructuring, but without any values between the braces.

e.g. const value = ({}) => { ... }

I believe Babel is simply complaining that the object is in fact empty, and does not have any values to destructure.

i had this issue also, the reason was let {}=this.state

I had a similar issue because I used {} at some point, is this an issue with babel, and if so which repo should we report it.

2 days ago we decided to upgrade RN from 0.14 to 0.19, after trial and errors we reached the babelHelpers.objectDestructuringEmpty is not a function error and found this thread. Thanks indeed. We had some function(state, {}) ... in our codebase.

Not sure if it’s a feature but it was working fine in Babel 5. Most likely Babel 6 is stricter.

@vigneshprabhu20 I just tried your solution and sadly I still have the same problem.

I fixed my problem thanks to your comments. My problem was that one of my render was like this :

_renderHeader = ({}) => {...}

and it should be like this :

_renderHeader = () => {...}

A fix is really needed for this 👍

I got this fix upon installing babel helper plugin.

Package.json: “devDependencies”: { “babel-cli”: “6.26.0”, “babel-plugin-external-helpers”: “^6.22.0”, … }

babelrc: { “presets”: [“react-native”, “flow”], “plugins”: [ “external-helpers”, … ] }

Reference to install this plugin: https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-external-helpers

I had similar problem:

const removeKey = (key: string, {[key]: {}, ...rest}) => rest;

it works good in debug, but release build chased.

fixed by changing {} to _.

const removeKey = (key, {[key]: _, ...rest}) => rest;