"Invariant Violation: Application AwesomeProject has not been registered" When building for iOS device with static jsbundle

Question

First off, I don't know react, but I figured deploying to an iOS device instead of the simulator wouldn't be too difficult to do with the docs. They were a bit sparse but I got somewhere and now I'm stuck. I created a main.jsbundle and added it to the Xcode project and uncommented the line in AppDelegate.m.

When I deploy it I get this error:

2015-03-26 16:13:08.538 AwesomeProject[4753:2477032] >   RCTJSLog> "Running application "AwesomeProject" with appParams: {"rootTag":1,"initialProps":{}}. __DEV__ === true, development-level warning are ON, performance optimizations are OFF" 2015-03-26 16:13:08.547 AwesomeProject[4753:2477032] >   RCTJSLog> "Error:   stack:    runApplication                  main.jsbundle:33769   jsCall                          main.jsbundle:7157   _callFunction                   main.jsbundle:7404   applyWithGuard                  main.jsbundle:877   guardReturn                     main.jsbundle:7206   callFunctionReturnFlushedQueue  main.jsbundle:7413  URL: file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Bundle/Application/DBC0DAF4-B568-4CF5-B156-9EFEE4E7FF4A/AwesomeProject.app/main.jsbundle  line: 1536  message: Invariant Violation: Application AwesomeProject has not been registered." 2015-03-26 16:13:08.723 AwesomeProject[4753:2477032] >   RCTJSLog> "#CLOWNTOWN (error while displaying error): Network request failed" 

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure @krazyeom's fix has nothing to do with this error. In my case, I fixed this by quitting the terminal that was running from a previous test app I had run. It seems the terminal was confused and was still hooked to a process whose project was no longer loaded in XCode. Try the following:

1. Shut the Terminal spawned by React Native.
2. Shut down XCode completely (may not be necessary).
3. Re-open everything and re-run.