nx/expo not showing QR on Windows

[bjornraats]

Current Behavior

Nx/Expo is not showing qr and other sideloading options after metro starts

Expected Behavior

Nx/Expo should show QR and other side loading options

GitHub Repo

No response

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a new expo app with latest nx version (nx 19.5.3 / expo 51.0.8) -> npx create-nx-workspace@latest --preset=expo --appName=test-expo-app

2. Start the new expo app -> nx start test-expo-app

Nx Report

Node   : 20.13.1
OS     : win32-x64
npm    : 10.5.2

nx                 : 19.5.3
@nx/js             : 19.5.3
@nx/jest           : 19.5.3
@nx/linter         : 19.5.3
@nx/eslint         : 19.5.3
@nx/workspace      : 19.5.3
@nx/detox          : 19.5.3
@nx/devkit         : 19.5.3
@nx/eslint-plugin  : 19.5.3
@nx/expo           : 19.5.3
@nx/react          : 19.5.3
@nrwl/tao          : 19.5.3
@nx/web            : 19.5.3
@nx/webpack        : 19.5.3
typescript         : 5.5.4
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Registered Plugins:
@nx/expo/plugin
@nx/eslint/plugin
@nx/jest/plugin
@nx/detox/plugin

Failure Logs

$ pnx start test-expo-app

> nx run test-expo-app:start

Packager is ready at http://localhost:19000
Starting project at C:\ihomer\repos\expo-test-app\app\apps\test-expo-app
Using src/app as the root directory for Expo Router.
Starting Metro Bundler
Waiting on http://localhost:19000
Logs for your project will appear below.

Package Manager Version

No response

Operating System

• [ ] macOS
• [ ] Linux
• [X] Windows
• [ ] Other (Please specify)

Additional Information

Also tried with Nx version 19.4.0 (which has said to have fixed this behavior according to https://github.com/nrwl/nx/issues/26529) and Expo 50.0.19 but still the same behavior...

[bjornraats]

@xiongemi any thoughts on this?

[xiongemi]

@bjornraats my guess would be set NX_NATIVE_COMMAND_RUNNER=false in your env file and run the command again to see if that would fix the issue?

[xiongemi]

i just tried it, when with executor, it works fine on my windows 11 machine:

"targets": {
  "start": {
      "executor": "@nx/expo:start"
  }
}

[xiongemi]

closing this issue for now