react-native: command not found

I’ve bootstrapped a new react-native project with the latest react-native-cli and when I try to run it in XCode, I get:

../node_modules/react-native/packager/react-native-xcode.sh: line 36: react-native: command not found

That means I can not anymore run a react-native 0.14 app in my system.

So if I understand this correctly, XCode is calling a shell script. But I’m using nvm and my react-native is not global (unless executing some env files), so I guess xcode don’t execute my env? Also i’m using ZSH.

I feel that the packager should not expect react-native command to exist because it really depend on the env config of each developer and we will likely have a lot of issues like this.

Why is there a strong dependency from react-native packager to react-native-cli ? Someone that fork a react-native example/project should be able to just run it without having to install react-native-cli separately

Workaround: create a ~/.profile that setup the environment and add . ~/.profile at the beginning of ./node_modules/react-native/packager/react-native-xcode.sh … Unfortunately I don’t see a way to setup this in XCode.

[kamyzd]

Try to do this: $ npm install -g react-native-cli This fixed my issue

[kristianmandrup]

I came up with the following simple solution:

$ npm install -g react-native-cli
/Users/kris/npm/bin/react-native -> /Users/kris/npm/lib/node_modules/react-native-cli/index.js
/Users/kris/npm/lib
└── react-native-cli@0.1.10

ls /Users/kris/npm

I confirm there is a /bin folder with the react-native binary inside…

I then manually added /Users/kris/npm/bin to my $PATH

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/:/Users/kris/npm/bin

IT WORKS!!!