Why is expo not refreshing when i save changes?

Question

When I make changes and save them, the app in my emulator is not being refreshed; the emulator is not connected to the metro server I think.

I tried to clear cache by running expo -r -c, but this didn't do any thing.

Answer 1

Did you try to enable the fast refreshing? I was having the same issue, but after I enable the "Fast Refresh" the auto refreshing started working again. To enable the fast refresh you just have to shake your smartphone and tap on "Enable Fast Refresh".

Answer 2

If the above solution won't work(Shake or refresh the entire Expo server) another 2 alternative are :

First option:

While being in the project directory where server is running Press:

 r  

│ --> it will reload the app

2 Option: Go to your device Settings find Expo Go and force stop then reopen it

Answer 3

did you try to rerun npm? npm add expo . and then run it as npm start .