ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle'

Question

When I run

npx react-native run-android --variant=release 

in RN 0.61.3 and I receive this error message.

ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle'

The build works fine when debugging without the release variant.

Answer 1

For some reason I needed to create the assets folder as per below.

android/app/src/main/assets

Answer 2

• Go to android/app/src/main/
• Create one more folder of the name assets
  It will look like android/app/src/main/assets
• Then run it. Absolutely workable.

Answer 3

i had the assets folder already, but mistakenly had kept on being in the android folder, doing cd .. helped me and the run the command npx react-native bundle --platform android --dev false --entry-file index.js --bundle-output android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle --assets-dest android/app/src/main/res

Answer 4

Right click the app folder New->Folder->Assests Folder