nodeHandle expected to be non-null

Error raised: nodeHandle expected to be non-null Upon calling goBack(); on the webview.

This is happening on our production app and we haven’t found a repro case yet. It does seem to occur only on iOS though.

We’re using RN version 0.59 (latest), rn webview version 5.10.0.

Any ideas what could be causing it?

[Zeneixe]

Thanks for the reply! Can you be more specific maybe showing the before/after code?

Currently it looks like this for us:

ref={(webView: WebView): void => { this.webView = webView; }}

And the error is still happening, no global reference.

[ErangaD]

I am experiencing this as well. I am using React Navigation for my app. In the initial load of the web view screen, goBack() works fine. But when I go to another screen and come back to the screen containing the web view, the error nodeHandle expected to be non-null gets raised. I am trying to dynamically changing the source={{uri: currentURL}} url to be loaded here. Could that be a reason?

In my case, I had kept a global reference for the ref prop of the WebView. By removing that with a class level reference, the error was fixed.