Release App Crashing on Codepush update Install about repack

[jbroma]

Hey @vlack-coder

As stated in the docs: Officially, CodePush is only supported if you're not using Code Splitting..

We have a guide on how to get it to work here, but I'm not sure how up to date that info is. Give it a try if you haven't already.

Summoning @RafikiTiki as I believe he did some experiments with CodePush not that long ago

[vlack-coder]

Thanks @jbroma . it's working... sorry for being a cry baby here. it's a skill issue, my bad. And the doc kinda added cache invalidation with codepush which confused me

So this is the normal script to run when you push to app center.
appcenter codepush release-react -a ajims119-gmail.com/rapckA

under the scene, it runs node_modules/.bin/react-native bundle

So I created the bundle with repack like the repack Docs suggested using
npx react-native webpack-bundle --platform android --entry-file index.js --bundle-output ./CodePush/index.android.bundle --assets-dest ./CodePush --dev false

Then pushed to appcenter specifying that bundle.
appcenter codepush release -a ajims119-gmail.com/rapckA -c ./CodePush -t 1.0

Thank you for you time

[vlack-coder]

I'm providing a repo for reproduction with:

• Fresh React Native installation (0.72.5)
• I installed codepush and React native progress (to show the progress of the OTA downloaded)

Repo - https://github.com/vlack-coder/repack_codepush

Observation

When there's no url in createURLResolver before pushing OTA to app center, it works fine.

[vlack-coder]

Hi @jbroma , I'm aware of the guide of using CodePush with Code Splitting but I don't understand step 5 to 7 of the guide

[vlack-coder]

@RafikiTiki is there a way to go about this? Thank you

[jbroma]

@vlack-coder this steps describe a way to invalidate repack cache and cause it to fetch new versions of the scripts instead of reusing the stored ones (cache checks the request parameters when resolving scripts).

Instead of steps mentioned there, you can use shouldUpdateScript mechanism introduced in #287 (please see the PR description to understand how it works).

[jbroma]

Note: this is a good candidate for update in the docs

[vlack-coder]

@jbroma I'm aware of cache invalidation but in my case, I'm not trying to invalidate the mini app cache.
I'm trying to update the host app bundle with what comes from codepush.

And I think the problem is the command that appcenter uses to create a bundle to push to appcenter...
So it creates this bundle with metro instead of webpack... Because the error I'm getting is of this nature -
ReferenceError: Property '__webpack_require__' doesn't exist, js engine: hermes, stack:

[jbroma]

@vlack-coder I'm not familiar with CodePush setup tbh, what command are you using?