Directions do not work for native-platform-getting-started

[erickappotis]

Problem Description

I say this with the utmost of respect as I'm sure a lot of hours have gone into development, however, as someone trying to simply get the example working following the instructions step-by-step, this was/continues to be an extremely frustrating experience.

None of the instructions on the getting started work at all. I was able to make modification based on hours of scavenging the web, and issues, etc.

After installing the dev dependencies on a clean install of windows 11 Pro we start with:

npx --yes create-react-native-library@0.48.9 --react-native-version "^0.79.0" <projectName>

which yields:

I am able to get by that issue, by changing the command to be:

npx --yes create-react-native-library@0.48.9 --reactNativeVersion 0.79.0 testlib --slug testlib --type turbo-module --languages kotlin-objc

I then proceed to move into the library directory and am able to run the commands up until the run-windows command, at which point I get:

I am able to get by that, by appending --singleproc to the run-windows....however, following that, I get errors saying that:

BUNDLE ./index.js
ERROR Error: Unable to resolve module testlib from C:\Users\ekappotis\testlib\example\src\App.tsx: testlib could not be found within the project or in these directories:
node_modules
..\node_modules
1 | import { Text, View, StyleSheet } from 'react-native';

2 | import { multiply } from 'testlib';
| ^
3 |
4 | const result = multiply(3, 7);

This is all using version 79 of the documentation. I have not tried to consume this from a react native for windows project because I would very much like to get the example running first. If anyone can shed more information on this or if anyone has a set of instructions that work, that would be great.

Steps To Reproduce

1. start at step#1 in microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/docs/native-platform-getting-started

Expected Results

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CLI version

npx --yes create-react-native-library@0.48.9 --react-native-version "^0.79.0"

Environment

npx --yes create-react-native-library@0.48.9 --react-native-version "^0.79.0" <projectName>

Community Modules

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Target React Native Architecture

None

Target Platform Version

None

Visual Studio Version

None

Build Configuration

None

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository

No response

[sundaramramaswamy]

@erickappotis Thanks for raising this issue and I understand the frustration, sorry about the documentation. The problem was with having quotes around the version string. Here's the right command to unblock you upfront:

npx --yes create-react-native-library@0.48.9 --react-native-version ^0.79.0 MyTestLib

This creates a Turbo module with Kotlin+Objective-C as expected:

√ What is the name of the npm package? ... my-test-lib
√ What is the description for the package? ... Hello, world.
√ What is the name of package author? ... Sundaram Ramaswamy
√ What is the email address for the package author? ... suramaswamy@microsoft.com
√ What is the URL for the package author? ... https://github.com/sundaramramaswamy
√ What is the URL for the repository? ... https://github.com/sundaramramaswamy/my-test-lib
√ What type of library do you want to develop? » Turbo module
√ Which languages do you want to use? » Kotlin & Objective-C
ℹ Using react-native@0.79.0 for the example
✔ Project created successfully at MyTestLib!

I've made a fix to the documentation (microsoft/react-native-windows-samples#1089) so that future readers doesn't hit this issue.

Please let us know if you're unblocked. Thank you.