Bug and/or best practice question around usage of CocoaPod

[andrewsardone]

Hi there! Given that this is my first React Native issue, let me just say, “awesome work!” This is an impressive project, and I especially appreciate the team open sourcing it.

I’m up against an issue using React Native when brought in as a CocoaPods dependency.

At first, the structure looks sound. My Pods/React directory includes everything and I’m able to compile an app that constructs a simple RCTRootView, but upon serving up my bundle JS file simple components seem to be throwing errors:

RCTJSLog> "Running application "ReactCocoaPodsDemo" with appParams: {"rootTag":1,"initialProps":{}}. __DEV__ === true, development-level warning are ON, performance optimizations are OFF"
[RCTLog][tid:0x7f8528c53570][RCTUIManager.m:710]>No manager class found for view with module name "RCTText"
[RCTLog][tid:0x7f8528c53570][RCTUIManager.m:710]>No manager class found for view with module name "RCTRawText"
[RCTLog][tid:0x7f8528c53570][RCTUIManager.m:710]>No manager class found for view with module name "RCTText"
[RCTLog][tid:0x7f8528c53570][RCTUIManager.m:710]>No manager class found for view with module name "RCTRawText"
[RCTLog][tid:0x7f8528c53570][RCTUIManager.m:710]>No manager class found for view with module name "RCTRawText"
[RCTLog][tid:0x7f8528c53570][RCTUIManager.m:710]>No manager class found for view with module name "RCTRawText"
[RCTLog][tid:0x7f8528c53570][RCTUIManager.m:710]>No manager class found for view with module name "RCTText"
[RCTLog][tid:0x7f8528c53570][RCTUIManager.m:710]>No manager class found for view with module name "RCTRawText"

I’ve posted a sample repo with steps to recreate the issue:

1. git clone https://github.com/andrewsardone/ReactCocoaPodsDemo
2. cd ReactCocoaPodsDemo && open ReactCocoaPodsDemo.xcworkspace
3. In a shell, run script/server and leave it running
4. In Xcode, ⌘R to build and run
5. Note that no <Text> components are rendered, and Xcode’s console is noting the above warnings

I’m at a loss on how to move forward, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[ide]

You could try to pull in #508 and #285 and optionally #261. The current master branch doesn't handle cocoapods very well but once something like a scalable module system (#235) is built out things should get a lot better.

[andrewsardone]

Thanks for the reply, @ide! I’ll take a look at those issues, but actually my problem was much simpler: I simply didn’t include the React/RCTText subspec dependency in my Podfile. This was pointed out to me by @mudetroit: andrewsardone/ReactCocoaPodsDemo#1.

I’m excited to see development of a broader module system (#235), so I’ll catch up on that thread. But frankly, right now this CocoaPods setup doesn’t seem too bad!

Closing the ticket – cheers!