react-native: react-native: command not found

I’ve bootstrapped a new react-native project with the latest react-native-cli and when I try to run it in XCode, I get:

../node_modules/react-native/packager/react-native-xcode.sh: line 36: react-native: command not found

That means I can not anymore run a react-native 0.14 app in my system.

So if I understand this correctly, XCode is calling a shell script. But I’m using nvm and my react-native is not global (unless executing some env files), so I guess xcode don’t execute my env? Also i’m using ZSH.

I feel that the packager should not expect react-native command to exist because it really depend on the env config of each developer and we will likely have a lot of issues like this.

Why is there a strong dependency from react-native packager to react-native-cli ? Someone that fork a react-native example/project should be able to just run it without having to install react-native-cli separately

Workaround: create a ~/.profile that setup the environment and add . ~/.profile at the beginning of ./node_modules/react-native/packager/react-native-xcode.sh … Unfortunately I don’t see a way to setup this in XCode.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 9 years ago
Comments: 54 (9 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Try to do this: $ npm install -g react-native-cli This fixed my issue

+21

kamyzd on Aug 25, 2016

I came up with the following simple solution:

$ npm install -g react-native-cli
/Users/kris/npm/bin/react-native -> /Users/kris/npm/lib/node_modules/react-native-cli/index.js
/Users/kris/npm/lib
└── react-native-cli@0.1.10

ls /Users/kris/npm

I confirm there is a /bin folder with the react-native binary inside…

I then manually added /Users/kris/npm/bin to my $PATH

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/:/Users/kris/npm/bin

IT WORKS!!!

+18

kristianmandrup on Feb 2, 2016

My solution is simple if you’re using nvm: Run nvm alias default node because each time a new Terminal comes about, it was defaulting to system node.

ernsheong on Jan 30, 2016

I have solved this problem by adding lines:

. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm use node

to Xcode build settings in ‘Build Phases’ -> ‘Bundle React Native code and images’ right before

../node_modules/react-native/packager/react-native-xcode.sh

tautvilas on Jan 25, 2016

@kristianmandrup like:

$ sudo npm install -g react-native-cli
/Users/burak/.npm-packages/bin/react-native -> /Users/burak/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/react-native-cli/index.js
/Users/burak/.npm-packages/lib
└── react-native-cli@2.0.1

ls /Users/burak/.npm-packages Warning .npm-packages Its worked trying this code: export PATH=$PATH:/Users/burak/.npm-packages/bin/

abdurrahmanekr on Apr 18, 2017

I had this project before Android feature came out, and my .xcodeproj is outside the iOS folder.

If this is the case for you and you are manually adding ../node_modules/react-native/packager/react-native-xcode.sh into your Build Phases.

make sure you first change it to ./node_modules/react-native/packager/react-native-xcode.sh and inside react-native-xcode.sh remove the line cd ..

JakeRawr on Feb 6, 2016

It confuses me when owners/contributors close issues like this one when they clearly aren’t resolved. 😦

But anyway, I also had to add source ~/.bash_profile to ./node_modules/react-native/packager/react-native-xcode.sh to fix it.

coderdave on Nov 25, 2015