create-react-native-library: Failed generate the codegen file

[boek]

first time setting up a react native build on this machine following the getting started guide and ran into this error

/Users/jboek/Developer/tmp/rnrust/my-rust-lib/node_modules/react-native-builder-bob/lib/targets/codegen.js:48
    throw new Error('Failed generate the codegen files.');
Error: Failed generate the codegen files.
    at build (/Users/jboek/Developer/tmp/rnrust/my-rust-lib/node_modules/react-native-builder-bob/lib/targets/codegen.js:48:11)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
    at async buildTarget (/Users/jboek/Developer/tmp/rnrust/my-rust-lib/node_modules/react-native-builder-bob/lib/index.js:421:7)

Was able to get past it by adding "@react-native-community/cli": "latest", to my devDependencies in the project. We may want to either call this out as a dependency to install globally or include it in the devDependencies in the template.

[Johennes]

This is interesting because in https://github.com/unomed-dev/react-native-matrix-sdk/blob/main/yarn.lock#L10774 (which was generated with create-react-native-library) I'm getting this package as a direct dependency of react-native itself. 🤔

Could you maybe double check your yarn.lock file to see if there's really nothing else that would already pull this in?

[jhugman]

This may be related to https://github.com/callstack/react-native-builder-bob/issues/662 , reported earlier today.

[Johennes]

Oh, great find! Unfortunately, running into regressions when integrating the various tools in the RN ecosystem is a somewhat common annoyance in my experience. 😞

Maybe we could try to pin the RN version in the guide?

[atlj]

FYI: https://github.com/callstack/react-native-builder-bob/pull/665

The fix is to add "@react-native-community/cli": "15.0.0-alpha.2", or with the version you desire to the root package's devDependencies.

[jhugman]

This appears to be fixed; thank you @atlj .

[atlj]

Out of context:

This project looks pretty interesting. If you have any other problems with CRNL or builder bob, please feel free to ping me.

[jhugman]

This project looks pretty interesting. If you have any other problems with CRNL or builder bob, please feel free to ping me.

Sure thing! Thank you for everything you do!