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Getting started with React Native for Windows

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Matteo Pagani
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Oct 14, 2019
If you're familiar with web development, you'll know for sure React. This framework, built by Facebook, is becoming more and more popular to build client-side web experiences. Unlike other frameworks...
Updated May 09, 2020
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arun986
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Feb 07, 2023

Hi Matteo Pagani, 

 

I have tried below steps to publish my React Native application for windows:

 

  • Open the solution in Visual Studio
  • Select the Release configuration from the Configuration Manager drop-down.
  • Build the solution. You can now launch without first launching Metro.
  • If you want to build an APPX package to share or publish, use the Project > Publish > Create App Packages... option.

Observations:
For building the app it takes a hell lot of time (more than 30 mins) and after completing build successfully I'm not able to launch my RN application without Metro. It gives me error "A connection with the server could not be established" (see below error screen-shot).

 

After publishing I see there is an react-native application automatically installed into my system with the same name of my application and upon double clicking it I'm getting same error.

 

Error screen-shot:

 

Could you please advice me how we can create React Native application for Windows project, standalone package which will work without explicitly running Metro (without running npm start command).

Thanks in advance!

BR,

Arun Rastogi