RN Skia not working with EAS build (dev-client) in Expo

[11CaptainKirk]

When using EAS build in Expo with react-native-skia the following errors are returned:

ReferenceError: Can't find variable: SkiaApi
at node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Core/ExceptionsManager.js:95:4 in reportException
at node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Core/ExceptionsManager.js:141:19 in handleException
at node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Core/setUpErrorHandling.js:24:6 in handleError
at node_modules/@react-native/polyfills/error-guard.js:49:36 in ErrorUtils.reportFatalError
at node_modules/metro-runtime/src/polyfills/require.js:203:6 in guardedLoadModule
at http://192.168.1.237:19000/node_modules/expo/AppEntry.bundle?platform=ios&dev=true&hot=false&strict=false&minify=false:152739:3 in global code

Invariant Violation: "main" has not been registered. This can happen if:

• Metro (the local dev server) is run from the wrong folder. Check if Metro is running, stop it and restart it in the current project.
• A module failed to load due to an error and AppRegistry.registerComponent wasn't called.

at node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Core/ExceptionsManager.js:95:4 in reportException
at node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Core/ExceptionsManager.js:141:19 in handleException
at node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Core/setUpErrorHandling.js:24:6 in handleError
at node_modules/@react-native/polyfills/error-guard.js:49:36 in ErrorUtils.reportFatalError

I have read that with expo-dev-clients RN Skia is usable with Expo, but I haven't been able to make it work.

[wcandillon]

Are there anything interesting logs you could share that would be useful to us? Does the project builds nicely? We haven't tried expo-dev clients yet but we might give it a try

[11CaptainKirk]

@wcandillon Upon closer inspection I found that during the build the error mentioned in #405 occurs. Other than that it seems to work fine and the error above is thrown when the app is first opened. I have heard that for some people it works without a hitch but I haven't had that success.

[Norfeldt]

@wcandillon it would be fantastic to see how you use the expo-dev client to develop skia with expo tools 🙌

[wcandillon]

It looks like we may have fixed this part of v0.1.128. Please re-open if you have issues with this?

[alexvcasillas]

Hey @wcandillon it seems like this error is happening again intermittently

 ERROR  ReferenceError: Property 'SkiaApi' doesn't exist, js engine: hermes
    at ContextNavigator (http://192.168.1.41:8081/node_modules/expo-router/entry.bundle//&platform=ios&dev=true&hot=false&lazy=true:151441:24)
    at ExpoRoot (http://192.168.1.41:8081/node_modules/expo-router/entry.bundle//&platform=ios&dev=true&hot=false&lazy=true:151412:30)
    at App
    at withDevTools(App) (http://192.168.1.41:8081/node_modules/expo-router/entry.bundle//&platform=ios&dev=true&hot=false&lazy=true:131070:27)
    at ErrorToastContainer (http://192.168.1.41:8081/node_modules/expo-router/entry.bundle//&platform=ios&dev=true&hot=false&lazy=true:130971:24)
    at ErrorOverlay
    at RCTView
    at View (http://192.168.1.41:8081/node_modules/expo-router/entry.bundle//&platform=ios&dev=true&hot=false&lazy=true:40316:43)
    at RCTView
    at View (http://192.168.1.41:8081/node_modules/expo-router/entry.bundle//&platform=ios&dev=true&hot=false&lazy=true:40316:43)
    at AppContainer (http://192.168.1.41:8081/node_modules/expo-router/entry.bundle//&platform=ios&dev=true&hot=false&lazy=true:40156:36)
    at main(RootComponent) (http://192.168.1.41:8081/node_modules/expo-router/entry.bundle//&platform=ios&dev=true&hot=false&lazy=true:121451:28)