React Native Expo - stuck at "downloading javascript bundle"

Question

This is insanely annoying. I have been working on a project for the past 1 week and absolutely no issue. All of a sudden, Expo decided to do this. It says "downloading javascript bundle" at 100%, yet it will not load my app. On my terminal it says

Finished building JavaScript bundle in 1319ms.
Running application on AOSP on IA Emulator.

I have reinstalled expo-cli and also expo on my emulator. Nothing works.

Please help. This is frustrating as I have been using expo for a while, with no issue at all. Normally when this happens I just restart my emulator and everything works fine. And then now....it is always stuck at "downloading javascript bundle"....

If I use my real phone, it says

Something went wrong. Could not load exp:/xxx.xxx.xx.exp.direct:80

I noticed this happened after installing expo-image-picker. Could this be the reason why? I uninstalled expo-image-picker but the issue is still here.

Answer 1

Solution 1:

This issue is because of any dependency that you have added into your project. you can try removing last package that you have install.

Solution 2:

rm -rf node_modules
rm package-lock.json
npm start -- --reset-cache
npm install

Solution 3:

use yarn instead of npm, and always install the package using expo install your_package_name by this it will resolve version of package and install version which is compatible with expo