Bundling loader stuck forever on screen

[George3d6]

Environment

react-native -v: 14.1.0
npm ls react-native-macos:  react-native-macos@0.75.5
node -v: v20.13.1
npm -v: 10.5.2
yarn --version: 3.6.4
xcodebuild -version: Xcode 15.4 Build version 15F31d

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Run metro watchman with npx react-native start --reset-cache
2. Build with npx react-native run-macos
3. Sometimes happens randomly, usually related to many reloads + app stuck + needs for quite

Expected Behavior

I kill the npx react-native start --reset-cache process and the app itself I can reload metro and rebuild

Actual Behavior

My app launches but a "Bundling" loader is forever stuck on it.

The app builds, I even see it in the background with cached state loaded and it makes requests to the server but a "Bundling 98%" load blocks me from interacting with it.

Reproducible Demo

No response

Additional context

This might be a case of "small convenience feature actually kills dev experience"

The way to fix this bug seems to be to have the "build" window in the background such that the "Bundling" loader never appears -- It's unrelated to the app working

[Saadnajmi]

You're stuck at 98%, not 100%? AKA, this is not a duplicate of https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-macos/issues/2183 ?

[bear-ei]

Am having the same problem with react-native-macos@0.75.6. But I'm stuck at 100%.

[Saadnajmi]

I think with 0.74+ the loading screen has been buggy, so I would call this method somewhere in your App / AppDelegate to disable:

RCTDevLoadingViewSetEnabled(NO);

[kaiyes]

in 75.6, I also get stuck on a 100% loading screen.

Went inside react-native-macos folder in node modules to see if it had your fix.

Looks like it does.

Still getting the 100% loading.

However, I'm also getting this image library related error too

[kaiyes]

Shoot. Solved by restarting metro !

Sorry ! No need to add RCTDevLoadingViewSetEnabled(NO);

[Saadnajmi]

Could y'all try applying https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-macos/pull/2211 locally (just copy and paste the changes in your Xcode project) and tell me if this works?