Description
I first discover this issue in June 16 (facebook/metro#181), which is a month ago, but got less attention on this in beggining. Then react native 0.56 released, which totally expose the problem, which bothering windows user even for now (see #20346 and facebook/metro#200).
Here is what I want to have been achieve
Fix debug RNTester on windows (merged in 2018-08-04)
Related pr: #19974.
The main purpose is refactor bash script to nodejs script, so it can be cross platform. I remove some types on file simplily because they not flow-typed file. @pvdz Please merge this asap. For without it, debugging RNTester will be an unusable on windows
Fix RNTester in release mode on windows (merged on 18/07/31)
Related pr: #20293.
This is a windows specific bug. And this bothered me very long time , I searched really really a lot to fix it.
Without it you will have build problem like this:
* What went wrong:
Failed to capture snapshot of input files for task ':RNTester:android:app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets' property '$1' during up-to-date check.
> Failed to create MD5 hash for file content.
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
I think it's clean fix and I have appveyor log to prove my fix work, you can see detail in that pr. So I hope @hramos or anyone with merge permission can review my pr.
Fix general problem like
Problem like SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier or 'Unable to resolve a haste module' or 'Unable to resolve a module' has been fixed in master branch by the help of metro team. But when I communicate with @kelset , branch 0.57 still not working. But I believe we can fix that soon.
And Many developers works on windows instead of macOS. And this has been take too long to fix. And there are many windows developer still suffer from this issue in today.
In the end, I love react native. But dear react native official members, don't make us wait too long.