Questions tagged [watchman]

Questions about the file watching service from Facebook

Watchman is a file watching service that can be used to answer questions about how files have changed in a directory tree over time, or simply to trigger actions as files are changed.

You can read more about it at https://facebook.github.io/watchman

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Hot Reload not working in react-native android

I tried it on windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04. In both cases the Hot Reload only works with changes in jsx, but not, when I change a variabel or function or something else in javascript. The Hot Reload is enabled. Live reload is disabled. When I save a…
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Wrong version of Watchman. Version found: 2021.09.06.00 Version supported: 4.x

After expo eject I run npx @react-native-community/cli doctor It shows ✖ Watchman - Used for watching changes in the filesystem when in development mode Version found: 2021.09.06.00 Version supported: 4.x I guess react native doesn't understand it…
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react native ios build take long time

React native project I build in Xcode, always stuck on "Running 2 of 4 custom shell script" and take nearly 5 min to continue. After that the bundling process in react packager also take very long time. eg : Bundling index.ios.js [development,…
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Watchman Error with ember-cli

I am trying to follow the examples in Ember 101. I have worked through this code once before without any issue. After reinstalling my ubuntu 14.04 for unrelated reasons I am getting an error [see bellow] when I run ember serve in my console. I tried…
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Do I need to keep .watchmanconfig file in react-native project

default react native project generates .watchmanconfig file that is simply empty object {}, can I safely delete this? A subquestion would be: is there any watchman configuration I can do / refference to improve react-native project experience…
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Error when starting watchman

hi when i want to start my app with 'react-native start', i get this error. Somebody know what to do? I tried to change the permission of the watchman folder and the project folder to chmod -R 777 'path' Metro Bundler ready. Loading dependency…
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React Native `npm start` with watchman error

I was first getting this issue: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/10088 Then I followed this solution to resolve for that issue: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/910#issuecomment-94181845 Now when I enter npm start I get…
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Watcher took too long time to load(NodeWatcher) - React Native

I am trying to run already built application in my mobile. When i start the app with "react-native start" code, it returns the following error message after some time ERROR Watcher took too long to load (NodeWatcher) Error: Watcher took too long…
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How to watch react-native node_modules changes

When I run react-native start or npm start the packager starts and prompts to be Looking for JS files in /Users/map/repos/myrepo/ I've got Hot reloading enabled. When I change a file located within /Users/map/repos/myrepo/node_modules/react-native/…
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ember cli could not find watchman on ubuntu, there is only solution for mac not for ubuntu

ember -v version: 2.3.0 Could not start watchman; falling back to NodeWatcher for file system events. Visit http://www.ember-cli.com/user-guide/#watchman for more info. node: 5.0.0 os: linux x64 http://www.ember-cli.com/user-guide/#watchman there…
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Configuring watchman in ember-cli

In my ember-cli app, .watchman config file, I've mentioned what directories to ignore while watching, like "ignore_dirs": ["tmp"]. Now I want to watch files in a directory which is outside my app directory. Is there any way to do it?
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watchman.plist permission denied when running a react-native initial project

I'm start using react-native and I followed the tutorials on the website, but when running the example project, it returned some error messages on the terminal: Looking for JS files in /Users/username/Desktop/nativeTest/BookSearch [06:03:00]…
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How can I resolve "Unable to talk to your watchman" errors

I created an issue with Facebook/react-native a couple of days ago, but I have yet to receive a response. In order to try to get me up and running I'm going to ask here as well. issue link I checked other SO posts concerning this matter and none of…
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cli : unable to talk to your watchman

I am new to React Native and I am trying to set up my development environment on Windows 8.1 as described in the official documentation. But I have a problem Steps : react-native init AwesomeProject cd AwesomeProject react-native start The app…
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Watchman keep crashing when I developing react-native

OS:macOS 10.12.6 node -v 6.9.0 npm -v 3.10.8 watchman -v 4.9.0 installed via brew create-react-native-app --version:1.0. As I found, watchman fails to work after I change several files, although it works perfectly if nothing changed. Then I…
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